Given. But from another angle, why do you think there are so damn many Americans, not just anti-Americans, that subscribe to this "tied down" in Iraq thinking?
Sure the press repeat it ad nauseum, but c'mon! The Navy and the Airforce aren't spending a whole bunch of resources in Baghdad. The entire B2 wing is just playing cards at the officers club and submariners are out chasing whales around the globe.
Are we intentionally letting them be downplayed, or what?
Perhaps we are.
Confusion to your enemies and all that. Let 'em think we're tied down and then smack the living hell out of 'em. I've got a feeling that most of our Boomers are loaded to the gills with conventional Tomahawks right now.
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