Will Bush exit – or escalate?

World Net Daily ^ | November 19, 2003 | Patrick J. Buchanan

[FredTownWard]

Surely he knows this. Which is why I believe Bush and his War Cabinet may have another strategy in mind, which is this. The president intends to draw down U.S. forces to a hard core of fighters, perhaps 90,000, backed by U.S. air power, a force 15 times as large as the mobile U.S. force in Afghanistan. This force will carry the brunt of battle in a new war against the guerrillas and terrorists, and be less concerned with winning hearts and minds in the Sunni Triangle than killing enemy fighters. Operation Iron Hammer is the dress rehearsal for the new war.

[FredTownWard]

Pat Buchanan hasn't been right about much lately. He wasn't even right about the Iraq War. However, I think he has a better understanding of Bush's character than most Iraq War critics, and I think he has correctly guessed Bush's strategy here. The one thing Pat is wrong about here, if I read his implications correctly, is in his thinking the strategy will fail.

[MJY1288]

That's because Pat sees everything as a failure

[cmsgop]

Smells like ANTI-WAR.COM

[woofie]

Old Pundits never die they just fail to shut up....

[deport]

The one thing Pat is wrong about here, if I read his implications correctly, is in his thinking the strategy will fail.

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[Right_in_Virginia]

The one thing Pat is wrong about here, if I read his implications correctly, is in his thinking the strategy will fail.

Pat thinks (or hopes) everything will fail.

Especially if a "Bush" is at the controls.

[q_an_a]

had he been in the cenicle he woulod have found that a failure and he would have put poor Thomas to shame with his (Pat's) doubts. sometime after he lost the second time his whole thinking process wnet down hill. he uses the argumensts of children not wise old men. too bad.

[GraniteStateConservative]

No, just because the war will be long, it doesn't follow that what we are doing is wrong. Some wars are just long, hard slogs.

[Calamari]

Why have we increased troop strength along the Syrian border to 20,000? If I were Iran or Syria I'd be very concerned that the U.S. has them surrounded and could move against either at will.