The idea with an insurgency is to outlast it, and to win over the populace to the point that the insurgents can no longer recruit, and are no longer welcome.
It's actually happening in al anbar province now, course you won't see that in the media. -----Original Message----- From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 1:19 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Great perspective on the War The problem I have is: there is no plan to win. What good does it do to half-heartedly fight forever? What exactly are we gaining, again? On 5/24/07, Loathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is where you and I disagree. > > I don't care if we go into debt in order to win a war, I don't care if we > bankrupt our nation, so long as we win. > > I'm a fight to the death, no ranger left behind kind of a guy. > > I'm not going to fold simply because it costs too much money, and certainly > not over 3,000 American dead. That many died on 9/11. More than that died > on the beaches of Normandy. Our deaths per year in this war wouldn't equal > a month's fighting in most previous conflicts. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 11:02 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Great perspective on the War > > > tBone wrote: > > I don't think about money when I think about war. > > > > Then you shouldn't think about war. In fact you'd have no America to > do it in if it hadn't been for the French who paid for our > revolutionary war. > > Without money, there is no war and certainly no victory. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:235466 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
