I think an exit strategy assumes too much. The situation is dynamic, and any strategy should be fluid and flexible. To say to pull out troops by xx/xx/xx date is fool-hearty. So, the demand for an exit strategy (to answer your question) is fool-hearty (the current demands, anyway.)
To have no end-game in sight is careless too. Benchmarks should be set. When one is achieved, then next should be sought. If one cannot be acheived, the plan must be adapted. Specific dates should not be ascribed to these benchmarks. Perhaps in a suggested or ideal sense, dates could be used, but they shold not dictate the pace. The situation itself should.
I honestly don't know if that's taking place. I don't get briefings from generals.
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RE: Exit strategy?
I think an exit strategy is an excellent idea. Having any kind of strategy is better than the muddling effort we are presently deploying. First we try this and then we try that. I support the troops 100% but don't agree with the way this war has been conducted right from the fall of Iraq. Up to that point I feel we were doing an excellent job with the information that was available at that time[/b]. Since then, we have come to the realization thatmany of the original reasons for invasion were false. When Iraq fell and the Saddam regime was defeated we stood by and watched the people rape and pillage the country. We did nothing tomaintain law and order and that was the beginning of the insurgency that has grown and is giving us problems today. Call it what you want but the war is over and Iraq today is embattled in a civil war and we are caught right in the middle. Great Briton has seen what is going on and has started their own exit strategy. We can't stop a civil war so we need to quickly force Iraq to assume command and then leave. We aren't responsible for what happens after that even though we will be blamed by much of the rest of the world. There has to be an end and exit strategy other wise we will be there for another decade or more. 2 wrongs don't make a right and to remain there when we never should have gone in the first place is wrong. Most of the dates being thrown around are too close to the 08 election to be just chance. It is unfortunate that this whole issue is merely a political fighting point. Our troops are dieing and the government is going broke paying for a needless war. IMO it is better to end it this summer than to allow it to continue. Our increased presence has only increased the insurgency resulting in more bloodshed. Bring in the UN and let them act as peace keepers so the rest of the free world can have a hand in the restoration of Iraq.
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Nothing wrong in my opinion with devising an exit strategy and implementing in the near future. We do not and should not be in Iraq and Afghanistan for years, at least not at the troop levels we currently are. Not unAmerican at all with wishing for an exit strategy while still supporting the "troops."
I think an exit strategy assumes too much. The situation is dynamic, and any strategy should be fluid and flexible. To say to pull out troops by xx/xx/xx date is fool-hearty. So, the demand for an exit strategy (to answer your question) is fool-hearty (the current demands, anyway.)
To have no end-game in sight is careless too. Benchmarks should be set. When one is achieved, then next should be sought. If one cannot be acheived, the plan must be adapted. Specific dates should not be ascribed to these benchmarks. Perhaps in a suggested or ideal sense, dates could be used, but they shold not dictate the pace. The situation itself should.
I honestly don't know if that's taking place. I don't get briefings from generals.
What did I "assume" with the term "exit strategy" as you said?
Please tell me what I was thinking, it'll be a hoot.
Not you, Ifferd. Sorry I implied that. I'm referring to the fairly consistant exit strategy bantered around in the media and by many liberals.
We can never have a victory as long as politicians are fighting the war. And no duckbutter I'm not a radical right wing...you must be a radical left wing goof ball. Maybe I just see this a little different than you.
We were never trying to win this war..we were trying not to lose it. There can never be a victory this way and sometime in the not so distant future we will pay a much bigger price.
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