[Travis McGee]

Andrew J. Bacevich,

I can let you have a parachute and a rifle, and then you can jump out of a C-130 over Talibanland, and show us how it should be done.

Until then, SHUT YOUR STUPID REMF MOUTH about "half hearted measures".

[Jim Noble]

Travis, please see Nick Danger's post #7 above (with which I totally agree), and reconsider.

You know very well that success in war requires the relief of many high level REMFs who have achieved their positions of command under peacetime conditions, using inside the beltway skills that are a detriment on the battlefield. This was true in 1861, it was true in 1917, and it was most certainly true in 1941-42.

In 1950 we still had a few experienced combat commanders to send to ROK. The failure to replace political commanders in 1965 with real soldiers was a catastrophe from which we have barely recovered.

I can see you thinking Bacevich should not publish at a time like this (I don't agree, but I can see it).

But do you really think he's wrong? What do you think you had to do to get a third or fourth star from Cohen and Clinton? What sort of a man do you think you had to be?

[Razz]

Until then, SHUT YOUR STUPID REMF MOUTH about "half hearted measures".

Sir, are you then on the front lines of this 'war'?