--- "Robert J. Chassell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please suggest another alternative, bearing in mind > that the US > government either did not put 20000 soldiers on the > search 6 weeks > ago, or if it did, did not talk about the action. > > -- > Robert J. Chassell
20,000 soldiers is a hell of a lot, and the US has more urgent/important things to do than sending them traipsing around the Iraqi desert sounds like a pretty good one. Right now, at this moment, the US military is desperately overstretched. There is a 3:1 rule for deployments - to put 20,000 troops on the ground outside the US, you need to have a minimum of 60,000 soldiers dedicated to the job. Force constraints are real, and a major concern of everyone in the defense establishment right now. Gautam __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
