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To: Clairity
If we really had everything we needed we would have really WON the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Nonsense. We had more than enough tools to win at either location.

What we lacked was leadership and political will. Money can't paper over that. In fact, if you don't have it, you're just throwing good money after bad. To say nothing of lives.

7 posted on 07/30/2011 10:12:54 PM PDT by Steel Wolf ("Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master." - Gaius Sallustius Crispus)
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To: Steel Wolf

Rumsfeld was criticized for not sending more troops, He said “we have to go to war with the army we have, not the army we wish we had” or something to that effect. That was making it very clear that we didn’t really have all the resources we would have liked.


9 posted on 07/30/2011 10:18:23 PM PDT by Clairity ("The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected." -- VP Dick Cheney)
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To: Steel Wolf

I think by all accounts, we’ve won at both locations; it’s trying to build a post or nearly post-conflict peace based on western democratic traditions with tribal Muslims that’s impossible.


14 posted on 07/30/2011 10:30:11 PM PDT by americanophile ("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives" - Ataturk)
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