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To: Dominic Harr
Right now, on the ground in Iraq, who's the enemy?

That is the main trick here in this war. It's an interesting, dangerous problem. But militarily, it never once threatens a 'victory' on the battlefield.

It's a little more than an "interesting, dangerous problem." It is the definition of military aimlessness.

And it is coupled with another "dangerous" element -- the lack of a definable "battlefield."

And if you don't know for certain who the enemy is or where the battlefield is, by what measure are you gauging "victory on the battlefield?"

166 posted on 11/02/2006 10:21:57 AM PST by atlaw
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To: atlaw
And if you don't know for certain who the enemy is or where the battlefield is, by what measure are you gauging "victory on the battlefield?"

Victory on the battlefield means controlling the territory. When the enemy face us, they die. They are so ineffective that their only real attack is to kill themselves.

197 posted on 11/02/2006 3:05:54 PM PST by Dominic Harr (Conservative: The "ant", to a liberal's "grasshopper".)
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