"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
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This conflict will require a much smarter approach. Unfortunately, much
of it must be hidden. And, what does NOT need to be hidden makes for
lousy TV footage, for those among us who need to see weapons in action in
order to think something is being accomplished. Or, in order to get a
rush or an erection, and then base their voting decisions on these
sensations. War for the sake of war is the result of a mind that never
passed the age of 16.

My prediction is that the methods we tried in Iraq will be obsolete in
the near future.


I agree ... except for the 16 year old mindset thing. The inertia of our
defense structure will take years to modify and change ... step by step.
In the meantime, big guns is all we have and are structured for.

I've heard a few interviews with military people who've been in Iraq. Some
of these guys sounded like they really would rather we had never gone to
Iraq. I don't think the overall strategy came from the military. It came
from people like Paul Wolfowitz, who none of us ever voted for. The real
problem is that people behind the scenes are able to get to the president
with insane ideas. Consider the stupidity of the domino theory, for example.
Its authors later recanted that nonsense.



We are going to have to accept actions that we never tolerated publicly
before. Assassinations without obvious, justifiable cause and other
covert actions that have disturbed the public in the past.

I've never had issues with such methods, as long as they're not used to
eliminate people who simply have a label we don't like, like "leftists" in
South America. There are people in our government who know the difference
between an annoyance and a threat. If only we had a manager who knew how to
act upon threats, we'd be in much better shape.