Sunday, March 16, 2008
Interesting compendium
Once we pushed most of our combat forces into close interactions with the Iraqi people, the information they obtained ensured that the targets they hit were the right ones. Above all, the compassion and concern our soldiers have consistently shown to civilians and even to defeated and captured enemies have turned the tide of Iraqi opinion. Kagan.
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I argued against its apparent preference for high-tech, small-footprint wars, which continued a decade of movement in that direction by senior military leaders and civilian experts.
Nothing to argue against here. Just against the false (implied) assumption that I would be for a small-print: to the contrary, I'm all for the bigfoot approach. And that means lotsa boots on the ground (yes), lotsa boats around (yes!), and lotsa Coanda flying machines in the air (yes!!). So no Mr. Straman, willya?
Daisycutters is small footprint. Their use means you've given up on the democracy thing and want everyone dead.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Daisycutters can come in handy, but must be used judiciously. It's all a question of balance. I agree, you don't want to hit mosquitoes with sledgehammers. But there is also danger in using too little force, in a piss-ant fashion (as we did in Falujjah 1 attack, played according to JJ rules). If done badly, our boys die needlessly, the bad guys get emboldened, and the pinkos start ululating.
the compassion and concern our soldiers have consistently shown to civilians and even to defeated and captured enemies have turned the tide of Iraqi opinion
the few, the loving, the compassionate?
I think it's true, Pepe. We even have an admiral sounding like a PCF guy.
What's PCF? We should ban acronyms on this board!
Party communist frenchy or something.
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