> Larry wrote: > Just as an aside and a cautionary about this site, www.strategypage.com
Kinda funny because I just heard on NPR this morning that northern Iraq "is an Al Qaeda stronghold" that "is growing". I guess I don't know what the real story is or isn't, but it still seems to me that AQ is in Iraq because we are and I don't buy the argument that you need regular military boots on the ground to effectively fight AQ. I'm certainly no expert, but my gut feeling is that we'd be even more effective if we didn't present an easy target for them being that they are essentially unlimited. That is, beef up and deploy thousands of special forces teams throughout the area with a consolidated command, control, operations, and intelligence leadership. Do things like build a regular military base for, say, 2 months - run special operations out of it and then suddenly dismantle. In short, be as unpredictable and as vaporous as the enemy. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:260906 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
