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On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 22:57:31 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:35:23 -0800, wrote:

On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:24:35 -0500, wrote:

On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:44:46 -0800, wrote:

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.

You are arguing with yourself now.

"The rush" was to get him before he could move about 31 miles into
Pakistan.

How did that work out? Read up on what actually happened. Turns out,
the Special Forces were told to stand down. Why?

Because we did not want to start a war with Pakistan?

Because Rumsfeld failed as the Sec. of Def. This was in Afg. not Pak.

I bet that sounded reasonable at the time.

The real problem was the original plan counted on help from the locals
and that worked fine until we got to a place where the locals liked
Bin Laden better than they liked us. 50,000 troops and 10 years has
not done much to control that area but you think Bush had a magic
bullet in his gun he could have deployed in a week or two.

If we had had the troops there, we wouldn't have needed the locals.