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On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:11:23 -0500, wrote:

On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:17:13 -0800, wrote:

What?? We're certainly not doing that in Afg. Bush is the one who
wouldn't commit troops there when we could have caught him. I guess
OBL wasn't that important... But, you want to commit 300K troops in
Somalia.

I never said I would put ONE ****ING GUY on the ground in Somalia. I
only said if I did I would send 100,000 (using the Peteaus or Powell
doctrine) if I went and that is probably not enough.
Personally I think invading Africa is as stupid as invading
Afghanistan. It is actually worse politically.

And, in the next sentence you said it would be a disaster. So, let me
summarize... you wouldn't do it, but if you did it would be a mistake.

As for OBL, it is far from certain 50,000 troops would have had any
better luck in catching him without also doing a mass invasion of
Pakistan, something Bush wisely did not want to do.

It wouldn't have been certain, but it would have been more likely.
Bush/Rumsfeld couldn't use 50K troops because they didn't think it was
necessary. The screwed it up.

It is one thing to put Delta teams on the ground, they are trained to
move like that but putting regular troops on the ground and feeding
them takes time. Your homework, how long did it take to get the troops
in for most recent surge in Afghanistan and we were already there in
force.
(Hint: it was a number of months)

What was the rush? We had intel about where he was. Bush left it to
the war lords since there were no troops available.

I know there were some old Delta guys on TV saying "if I just had X",
everyone has an excuse for failing but there is no real proof it would
have actually worked.

Bush screwed us, our troops, the Afghanis and the Iraqis over. That
doesn't need to be proved, since it's a fact.