[spetznaz]

This is what i was aiming at OV on that other thread. The moment politicians (even ours) start getting involved in the day-2-day running of things the greater the probability actions shall be taken that shall just buy the others side time. And thus we'll be left with 2 options. Withdraw from Iraq (which will never happen unless we want our enemies to see us as weak). Or two: go back and retake the cities.

And retaking the cities after giving the enemy time to prepare will not lead us to defeat ....we will indeed win, but more American lives will be lost because politicians were trying to walk the most PC path.

[altura]

You have no way of knowing that. Your tag line reveals how you would like to handle things.

Fortunately, we have leadership with a little better perspective.

We may actually ... and probably will ... save more lives with this approach.

Anyway, we don't really know that much about the plans yet.

Settle down everyone.

Sometimes I think George was too successful in the war; instead of the much predicted quagmire, it was pretty easy. Now everyone expects instant success on everything.