"JimH" wrote in message
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DSK wrote:
John H wrote:
You deviate. Here is the mission, as of now. With what do you
disagree?

WARFIGHTING

1. Protect, promote and preserve U.S. interests in the Central
Region

Like what? Removing a dictator which we left in power in the 1st Gulf
War?

... to
include the free flow of energy resources,

Then why is the price of oil going up? Or do you interpret "free flow
of
energy resources" to mean "increased profits for oil companies"?


... access to regional states

Like Syria and Iran?

... freedom of navigation

Wow, now this one's almost on topic.

... and maintenance of regional stability.

Like in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia?


2. Develop and maintain the forces and infrastructure needed to
respond to
the full spectrum of military operations.

Good one... we are rebuilding the Iraq security force into a
self-sufficent unit. Not happening fast enough, but it's happening.
But
if that was a goal from the start, why did we destroy the Iraqi
security
forces in the first place?

3. Deter conflict through demonstrated resolve in such efforts
as forward
presence, prepositioning, exercises, and confidence building
measures.

It's hard to explain how we "deter conflict" by invading &
instigating a
war.

4. Maintain command readiness to fight and win decisively at all
levels of
conflict.

Now here (as I said earlier) we're going backwards. The Iraq war has
been a disaster for U.S. military readiness.


5. Protect the force by providing an appropriate level of
security and
safety.


I guess this is why so much of the security of U.S. bases is handled
by
subcontractors?

ENGAGEMENT
1. Maintain, support and contribute to coalitions and other
collective
security efforts that support U.S. and mutual interests in the
region.

That's why so many members of our Iraq coalition are pulling out.

2. Promote and support responsible and capable regional
militaries.

Like Syria?

3. Promote efforts in the region to counter threats from weapons
of mass
destruction, terrorism, information warfare, and drug trafficking.

That must be why we concluded there are none... are were no... WMDs
in
Iraq, why terrorism in the region is increasing, why the terrorist &
fundamentalists are gaining increasing access to public media and are

increasingly popular; and finally, why the heroin trade is booming in

Afghanistan.

The rest of the list is seeing similar results. The Bush
Administration
clearly had *none* of these goals in mind for the Iraq invasion.

DSK

It won't work, John just isn't getting it. He's asked the question over
and over, you guys have answered over and over, and his response is to
ask the same damned thing again!!!!


Sort of like you and that Labatts/Labatt thing?

Let's not forget the "schnapps is whiskey" or "cow down" to name a couple
of others.