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Once again, the military establishment proves...
wrote in message ... On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:13:50 -0700, "nom=de=plume" wrote: wrote in message . .. On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:16:48 -0400, bpuharic wrote: On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:41:59 -0400, wrote: I don't believe the Kabul government really has much influence in the area where the AQ guys are hiding. That is why we failed at Tora Bora. we failed in TB because scum bag bush refused to send in US troops when we had osama cornered. the 'new republic' had an excellent article earlier this year on this exact event I don't think BL was going to stay put for the month or two it would take to safely deploy a division. We saw what happens when you don't do the groundwork in Somalia. This started as a quiet hit on Bin Laden but by the time he got to Tora Bora that was not going to work. Bush didn't want another war. Come on. We had him in a corner. We just needed to finish the job, but instead we handed off the responsibility to paid thugs who let him go. Bush didn't want another war? Are you sure? After all, he was "listening" to his generals (until they contradicted Rumsfeld anyway). You were going to have a mission shift if we went into Afghanistan in force. The original plan was a covert hit squad. Who is "you"? Bush let Rumsfeld dictate a tiny army with no ability to have boots on the ground, despite the recommendations from the military. You simply can not move a mass army as fast as they had to if they were going to get Osama by brute force. It has been almost 10 years and we still don't have that much power in that area. When we started chasing OBL we had local support but he was moving into an area that would rather shoot us than help us. It is still true today and we still do not really have any operational control there with 140,000 people on the ground. There are still 100 al queda there that we can't catch. We have about 95K in Afg. and about the same number in Iraq. |
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