The real Chesty would have killed them all in his quest for a CMH. - Matt
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gruss Gott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 9:01 AM Subject: Re: Today's Patraeus: Wow. >> Chesty wrote: >> Shouldn't the goal of war be to annihilate our enemy? That would be so >> much >> easier than winning their hearts and minds, and cheaper as well. >> > > The problem, as the real Chesty knew, is that the enemy has to be > defined. In Iraq only 5% of it is. > > We've got about 5% Al Queda (which our presence may be > self-generating), and 95% civil war (Patreaus calls it an > "ethno-sectarian conflict"). So who's the enemy? > > We simply don't have enough troops to lock down the country and clean > it out block by block so it just becomes a never ending loop. > > "Return on success" really means "report to the Iraqis" since now, > based on Bush's speech, our troops are essentially reporting to, and > at the mercy of, the Iraqis. They decide when we succeed. > > So I wonder if that means Iraqi veterans can get dual Iraqi citizenship? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the "What's New PDF" now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:242396 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
