True True William, I should state I paraphrased it but in the end, and Bruce, that made no sense. I never said I believe everything I here on the radio, but I'll state now at least I believe more of NPR than I see on CNN, ABC or Any Television news network.
After reading 3/4's of the report can state that I wouldn't be the only one thinking that the president isn't going to go in this direction. It's stupid if he doesn't. I could care less about Bush in general but what has transpired was from HIS and OUR campaign against the past leadership of Iraq and the USA needs to deal with it. Everyone seems to think the USA is this great, happy go-lucky place where everyone gets along but in the end if you took away the estimated 700,000 police officers patrolling our streets you would see the same type of violence happen here. It took a lot of time for the fear of the police, courts and justest in general to ingrain it's self into the moral fabric of our nation but it would only take months for it to deteriorate if it was removed. It's going to take a long time in Iraq as well but we need to assist because they just don't have the forces in-place to do it themselves. No one seems to be safe in Iraq right now and this is the problem. The paper from AEI has brought up some good points about population moral and what happens to people when they feel scared and threatened. I think Baghdad is used for the sake of America since we know the name of the city but hey, I'm sure the additional presence will help more than just training Iraq to defend itself. I loved the part where the report talks about training their military vs working alongside our military because it hints right on with everything we've ever learned in any of our lives. Take their current training as studding in school. It's classroom taught but, you have no real-life experience and in the end, no-one hires you and you end up working at McDonald's. Seems like the same thing is happening in Iraq. We train their forces, they attempt to get the real world experience they need to become exceptional and maybe start training their own forces but, they never get to that level because they have never seen the exceptional. Now they fail, their units as a whole fail and the population doesn't respect them. There is only the rare few who are the best of the best. When you get down to it, we've all learned by watching them. Just like Snowboarding or Golfing with people who suck, you end up semi-sucking because you are playing/riding with them. When the people you are Golfing with or Snowboarding with are better than you, you get pushed to perform better and this takes your involvement up the the next level. Gotta love this report though... 50 pages, double spaced, filled with terms Bush can understand and use next week when he starts talking about his plan. Casey On 1/6/07, William Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Oh, so because someone on the radio says something, it has to be true? > > No, what the NPR report *actually* said was "Now here's something you > can do. This weekend go to AEI's website, aei.org. Read their Iraq > proposal carefully and then next week when the President comes out to > announce his new Iraq strategy compare and contrast, and don't be > surprised if they look a lot alike." > > http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6730831 > > Oh, it will require that you listen to NPR, hope your ear doesn't fall > off!! > > ;-) > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:223884 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
