Re: Ken Smith: A Republican???

It seems to me that the problem is not with war, but with creating the
peace. In this case, there was no intent to take the country, only to put a
favorable government into place. A most difficult objective.

Regards,
Dobador

"Craig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> 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
> http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ps.html
>
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