Re: Ken Smith: A Republican???

Teresita wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ken Smith says...
>>
>> Iraq is going about as badly as
>> the competent military man -- who has actually read Sun Tzu -- might
>> have expected
>
> On the contrary, our ability to gather, analyze, and share tactical
> information electronically allows us to fulfill Sun Tzu's dream of a
> common picture of the battle.  And Sun Tzu prescribed a strategy of
> indirection founded on the concept that "normal forces" should fix or
> distract the enemy though head-on engagements while "extraordinary
> forces" operated on the enemy's flanks, probing for weak spots and
> striking when the opportunity presented itself.  The United States
> used air power to pummel Iraqi ground units from aloft while allowing
> the 3rd Infantry Division and the 1st Marines to function in the
> exploitive role.

    Let me know when the war is won then.
    Your application is a stretch.

>
>> and we shouldn't have gone in there guns ablaze when
>> we did, with no international backing (iirc, Iceland, Belgium, and
>> some South Seas island that even I'd never heard of before were part
>> of the "international coalition") to speak of.
>
> Stormin' Norman said that going to war without France was like going
> deer hunting without an accordian.  None of the allies you sought
> have the warrior spirit of the American fighting man.  Lessons
> learned from constant warfare has made us very good at what we do.

    What is this shit about France? France is not Europe and most of that
joke of a coalition is less important than toilet paper.

    WTF is this? Go down the line and check what contribution of importance
that most have made.
    I find this one the most precious
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