> Bill was a grunt during 'Nam and has a lot of bugaboos for which I > sympathize with him.
Actually, I was trained as an engineer, but then volunteered for a program called 'combined action' which was the Marine Corp's Big Idea on how to deal with an insurgency. The approach is still mainstream USMC thinking today, but it's just folly. Here's a classic: http://www.wjarnold.com/downloads/smilingvc.bmp. I'm sure it's the same thing in Iraq. I wish I would have kept a copy of my favorite cartoon of all time. It ran in the WSJ some years back. It depicted some survivors crawling out of the ruins and up to a "distinguished panel of experts" with a caption along the lines of "just what we need ...". <clipped> Bill > > B+ > HALinNY _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
