OK, well here is the thing. The war...oops, I mean contingency in Iraq is all but over. Obama declared that by next August, we will have between 35 - 50K boots on the ground, most of which are reconstruction, civil affairs and training types, as well as some combat troops. And the following year, all of us are to be out of here per the agreement between us and the Iraqi government. Which is fine with me since this place stopped being fun a long time ago. But, he is beefing up Afghanistan, hence my reference to me being there next year, which is fine because that place is still fun. So why bother with the name change? We are at war in Afghanistan, even if congress never formally declared war. AND, we have allies there helping, as well as NATO. So there is no need to repackage this whole thing. We have world support for that operation.
If anything, lets use the the mistakes that were made as lessons learned and the next time we want to go to war with another country, we go about it the right way, get the world behind us, and declare war. Then no need to re brand anything. I mean, Blackwater International re branded their company to Xi or something like that, but they are still going to be known as the unprofessional gun toting guys who shot women and children in Baghdad. It still does not get them their contract back in Iraq. Changing the name of this does not change the fact that we are still hunting down terrorists around the world. Bruce Gruss Gott wrote: >> But even if you did the efficacy of that power would be the same as no power. >> >> Case in point: "war on drugs". >> >> The military can't solve every problem, Sarge, and they certainly >> can't solve terrorism. If they could, it'd be solved. >> >> And outlaw military procedures can't solve terrorism. >> >> Case in point: Gitmo. How many convictions did we get out of that? >> And even Bush, at the height of his authoritarian regime, released >> detainees who were repeat offenders. >> >> Plain and simple the military stuff is an effective tool for >> short-term stabilization but the history is clear on long-term >> efficacy. >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:292746 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
