Publish an exit strategy?
Why don't we just print every military plan and classified document, translate it to arabic, and hand it out to every terrorist in Iraq.
Ollie is such a gentleman. The title of this should be "Hagel is Full of $hit"
Hagel is toast come Presidential Primary Season, and I can't wait for his campaign to go down in flames!
As we near the fourth anniversary of Sept. 11, it's important to remember that events make dates important, not the other way around.
What I sense from reading pieces about the war in Iraq is a maddening sense of American leadership being afraid to press its might, and win this war in a manner we would win it if this were northern Europe in the 1940s. Rather, we seem hell-bent on prosecuting the war in such a manner that keeps other, everyday life as close to "peacetime" as possible. Though I'm not a Vietnam veteran, I've read all I can on the subject, and in my opinion, that's where the similarities between Iraq and Vietnam lie: our desire to fight and yet not fight at the same time.
Long and short of it? If Iraq is worth the blood of one American soldier, we should prosecute the war in the most brutal, violent way possible in order to win it and get on to the next theater as soon as possible.
Instead, if you criticize the war you get a free pass. If you're a do-nothing seat-filler like Hagel, you get promoted to "leading Republican" even though no Republicans are following you.
We are in a war that already elevated our deficit. The information provided to us to keep us there is coming from where? The Obama administration.
There are a lot of smart people on FR, but this is how I feel. I’d love it if someone would enlighten me as to these feelings against this war. I really don’t trust the info for staying in.