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Unanswered Prayers: Will the Baker/Hamilton Commission get this war right?(Michael Ledeen)
Jewish World Review ^
| Nov. 17, 2006
| Michael Ledeen
Posted on 11/20/2006 8:39:07 AM PST by kellynla
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posted on
11/20/2006 8:39:08 AM PST
by
kellynla
To: kellynla
Will the Baker/Hamilton Commission get this war right?
I hope so...but I've got a bad feeling.
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posted on
11/20/2006 8:41:49 AM PST
by
Valin
(Rick Santorum 08)
To: Valin
I have the same bad feeling and I am getting tired of people from Bush #41 showing up to give advice or be on commissions.
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posted on
11/20/2006 8:43:06 AM PST
by
PhiKapMom
( Go Sooners! Rudy 2008)
To: PhiKapMom
I'm not too impressed either. I'm also concerned that we are in a conflict in which the people who running it can't figure out how to win without the CYA charade of hiring a commission to tell them what to do.
What chance have we against the overall WOT if this insurgency boggles us?
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posted on
11/20/2006 8:47:25 AM PST
by
gcruse
(http://gcruse.typepad.com)
To: kellynla
How 'bout we just wait for the report before getting negative?
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posted on
11/20/2006 8:48:34 AM PST
by
HelloooClareece
(Support the CinC during WARTIME or get outta my way.)
To: kellynla
Why isn't the commission a military one, with some outside expert opinion brought in, instead of the other way around?
It's a war, we need the best military minds.
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posted on
11/20/2006 8:52:12 AM PST
by
bordergal
(There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of men bad enough for this treachery)
To: HelloooClareece
how 'bout you address your posts to whom they should be...Clareece. LOL
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posted on
11/20/2006 8:54:08 AM PST
by
kellynla
(Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots. Semper Fi)
To: kellynla
Bad premise. There is something that all games have in common... and it's the same in warfare:
There are winners and there are losers.
If you wish to be the winner, play like it.
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posted on
11/20/2006 8:55:34 AM PST
by
pgyanke
(Gay marriage does to real marriage what counterfeit money does to real money. - Hemogoblin)
To: kellynla
Bad premise. There is something that all games have in common... and it's the same in warfare:
There are winners and there are losers.
If you wish to be the winner, play like it.
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posted on
11/20/2006 8:55:37 AM PST
by
pgyanke
(Gay marriage does to real marriage what counterfeit money does to real money. - Hemogoblin)
To: pgyanke
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posted on
11/20/2006 8:56:39 AM PST
by
pgyanke
(Gay marriage does to real marriage what counterfeit money does to real money. - Hemogoblin)
To: Valin
"Will the Baker/Hamilton Commission get this war right?"
No. Samuel Huntington would, but AFAIK he's not on the commission.
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posted on
11/20/2006 8:57:13 AM PST
by
GSlob
To: GSlob
I can't wait to hear what Sandra Day O'connor thinks. Talk about activist judges! sarc/
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posted on
11/20/2006 9:05:19 AM PST
by
ClaireSolt
(Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
To: kellynla
No, they will not get it right.
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posted on
11/20/2006 9:06:44 AM PST
by
edsheppa
To: ClaireSolt
Also, I get tired of the foment a revolution in Iran idea. Do you know what the aftermath of revolution often looks like? It looks like Iraq today.
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posted on
11/20/2006 9:07:58 AM PST
by
ClaireSolt
(Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
To: kellynla
No, they won't.
And they'll deny it's terrorism when some mook goes shaheed in the Bangor Mall.
Keep your powder dry, folks.
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posted on
11/20/2006 9:20:36 AM PST
by
metesky
("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
To: kellynla
"A free Iran would most likely become an instant ally in the war against terror..." I wish I could suppose this was true, but it seems far more likely that any government with wide popular support in Iran would be "Islamic", as a oil exporter fundamentally opposed to our long-term economic interests, and fundamentally opposed to current or likely foreseeable US policy on the Israeli - Palestinian confrontation.
So IMO unless we have both the means and the will to indefinitely occupy Iran and impose a regime more to our liking, Ladeen's vision - as it was in Iraq - is a pipe dream, and we would do better to start thinking about a realistic long-term policy for containment.
To: pgyanke
I favor the Attila the Hun school of diplomacy...
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posted on
11/20/2006 10:13:25 AM PST
by
talleyman
(Kerry & the Surrender-Donkey Treasoncrats - trashing the troops for 40 years.)
To: kellynla
They should have set up a commission to study how to win the "War on Drugs" (now over 30 years old) or the "War on Poverty" (over 40 years old). Or maybe they should investigate an "Exit Plan" for getting our troops out of Korea (over 50 years deployed) or Germany/Italy/Japan (over 60 years deployed). May be they could use the "Exit Plan" that was used to get the troops out of the Philippines (only took a volcano and almost 100 years).
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posted on
11/20/2006 10:14:37 AM PST
by
Trunk 71-74
(A god that needs man to carry out his dirty work is impotent!)
To: PhiKapMom
I have the same bad feeling and I am getting tired of people from Bush #41 showing up to give advice or be on commissions.Let's just be thankful that Dick Darman wasn't brought in to advise Dubya on economic policy.
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posted on
11/20/2006 10:20:19 AM PST
by
Night Hides Not
(Closing in on 3000 posts, of which maybe 50 were worthwhile!)
To: Night Hides Not
No kidding! Although we still have two years!
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posted on
11/20/2006 5:13:08 PM PST
by
PhiKapMom
( Go Sooners! Rudy 2008)
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