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That just sounds soooo good.
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Yeah, it's a new pet word of mine.
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Explain how we'll "vanquish our enemies" in Iraq? Kill everyone? Kill just the Suni's? Just the Shiites? Anyone with loose fitting longish clothing?
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No, the Iraqi government must find better managers, and they must enforce their authority over the rival factions blowing everything up over there. We certainly will need to do a lot more killing, but not just for its own sake. We have to stir the groups up and keep them disorderly, and more importantly, without financial and military resources.
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Will the ING do it? If so, why haven't they done it a dozen or more months ago?
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They have some good combat units, but as a whole, they still need to get all the details in order, as well as finish training (what better training ground).
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Will the Iraqi people suddenly begin cooperating? Whose politics needs to be "dropped?" Ours or theirs?
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Some will, some won't. I think most can be contained if the government steps up and acts like one.
Regarding politics here, I think we'll need to commit some level of troops to Iraq for many years to come. I think the situation will begin to stabilize in the next two years. Civil war happens, but it looks to me as though people are learning the hard lessons from the past few years and starting to fight differently. Strategy always needs to remain flexible, but keeping it so can obviously be difficult.
Anyway, pulling out will stir up all kinds of dreck in the region, and the option is for socialists. Whoever wants to lead Congress and the White House had better face reality and look at this situation with some objectivity. Perhaps, with luck, the competition between our two main parties will lead to nothing but benefit for everyone caught in this war.
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When you say "war," which war are you talking about? The war on terror or the war in Iraq? Are they one and the same to you?
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Iraq's part of the war on terror. Besides us and the native ethnic factions, we have Iran and possibly Saudi Arabia involved in a international proxy war. That aside, it would bea waste of lives, time, and money to pull out after establishing such a strong presence. We need to get the situation calmed down so our guys aren't burning out with long tours. There's work to be done first, and that mean cracking down on militants, whoever they receive orders from.
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The slower we move, the longer we'll be there? What should we speed up exactly? The killing? Of whom? Send in more troops? Then what? What will change? The Sunis? The Shiites? The ING? The hatred they have for each other? For us?
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Yes,more killing. Send in troops, raid, ambush, bomb, whatever. We have good battleground intel. Let's get some boots on the ground to nail it all down.
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Would that it should be as simple as the way the words spill from your keystation, Six.
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I like to talk in metaphors. I'm too lazy to type out everything inmy head. And it would probably make some people wet their pants.
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