[okie01]

If we want to send Marines and Army soldiers overseas to engage in politically correct police actions, then we should form a new branch of the military and train heavily armed policemen for that task. It is nuts to have Marines in a place like this doing police action--this is NOT what they were trained for.

What do you think the post-war occupations of Germany and Japan consisted of? They were nothing but "police actions", too. And the military seems to have handled those situations rather well.

Post-war occupations: isn't that why every branch has a Civil Affairs unit?

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

What do you think the post-war occupations of Germany and Japan consisted of?

After WW II, we controlled the media. We had full censorship of the media. This is what caused a more rapid achievement of our goals.

The police action today in Iraq, without full control of the media, is costing us the lives of our troops and our allies. It is nuts. We should never engage in a war if we do not do everything possible to win the war and then use all the tool to win the peace, with the FULL range of the tools at our disposal.