[Peach]

Thus far, I believe the president has let the military decide what it needs to do in taking Iraq and Afghanistan.

This smells of politics, not military operations. That would be a disappointment.

[victoryatallcosts]

In a functional system, military and poltiical considerations must be balanced. You can't undertake military operations without political support and you can't take a political course without the necessary support of the armed forces.

Churhcill, Lincoln- all of the best war leaders of the West didn't listen to the mlitary all of the time. Most of the time, yes.

In any case, what others are saying makes sense to me- these "insurgents" are being rapidly destroyed anyways. All an "all-out" offensive would do is intensify the media situation.

[ohioWfan]

He wouldn't do that, Peach.

Don't be alarmed by the headlines (or the crazies here).

The President lets the military make the calls. If THEY tell him it isn't necessary, he'll make that call.

There is NO way he would deliberately do something that would cost MORE American lives with the military advising him otherwise. NO way.

[txrangerette]

I don't think it's politics. I
trust Team Bush to have proper
motives. Gen. Abizaid, I'll bet,
wants to try it this way; it seems
we've already ground down the low-
lifes there with our tactics.

[Hand em their arse]

Am I totally off base here... does anyone know approx. breakdowns of when and how we started losing alot of our guys?? It just seems that when we went in and air-assaulted the snot out of the bad-guys at the beginning of this thing we softened them up so nicely that it made the ground assault a bit safer and more effective. Why not do the same here, bring in the boys in the planes let them drop in a couple of love letters and see who really wants to stick around in the name of Allah. I have to think we would, for lack of a better term, "shock and awe" all of these idiots!!