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Exit Strategy-"To build an E/S in advance, leaders would literally have to know the unknowable."
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| August 12, 2005
| Jeff Edwards
Posted on 08/15/2005 7:28:35 PM PDT by Former Military Chick
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To: No Longer Free State
We have an exit strategy. Our strategy is to kill as many terrorists as we can while training the Iraqis to take over their own security and to help them develop a representative government while we're doing all the other heavy lifting. When they're ready to run their own country, we'll exit. What part of that don't you understand, Senator Biden? What is important to understand is that this is truly a life and death issue for the United States of America. The Cold War (including Vietnam) was really just a series of "proxy wars" between America and the Soviets, neither side would be destroyed if we pulled back at certain points. And Reagan finally understood that we could spend the Soviets into collapse.
But none of this is true with the terrorists, we must fight them head-to-head. And we must remember that they have been preparing for this war for 13 centuries, the memory of the medieval Crusades is still alive with them. But the first notion the West had that Islam was a threat were the wars between the Arabs and Israelis, yet even then Americans never felt there was a threat. Jimmy Carter's willingness to abandon American interests in the Middle East gave the Islamofascists the determination to pursue larger targets. The War on Terrorism DID NOT BEGIN on September 11, 2001, this was just the day when many Americans first realized that it was a war we could no longer pretend wasn't there. If we "exit" the Islamofascists will become even bolder, and they will not stop until we are all dead.
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posted on
08/16/2005 5:28:47 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: Former Military Chick; Choose Ye This Day; Lando Lincoln; quidnunc; .cnI redruM; Valin; yonif; ...
Nailed It!
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posted on
08/19/2005 4:39:54 AM PDT
by
Tolik
To: Tolik
I was hoping you saw this.
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posted on
08/19/2005 7:30:24 AM PDT
by
Choose Ye This Day
(I lost my copy of the PNAC Neo-Con agenda. Can someone fax me one?)
To: Choose Ye This Day
Yes, thanks for the heads-up. I am back to the Internet world for a short time, then back to the Internet withdrawal again.
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posted on
08/19/2005 8:59:43 AM PDT
by
Tolik
To: Former Military Chick
Thanks FMC. Excellent essay.
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posted on
08/19/2005 9:04:28 AM PDT
by
RottiBiz
To: Tolik
I was internet-deprived for a month, when we moved here from Minnesota. It was painful. I'm finally up-and-running with DSL now.
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posted on
08/19/2005 10:40:04 AM PDT
by
Choose Ye This Day
(I lost my copy of the PNAC Neo-Con agenda. Can someone fax me one?)
To: Former Military Chick
Every week, 2000 Americans die in accidents, 600 take their own lives and 300 are murdered. All are preventable at some level of cost or effort. Most are economically preventable. We just don't care enough, and are willing to accept the deaths in exchange for the convenience of, say, not using an alcohol interlock on all cars, etc. Our military deaths are as tragic as our domestic deaths, just not as preventable, and we incur those deaths to try to avoid or delay the eventuality of millions of deaths. I'd give my life to make a difference in the safety of millions; it would be an honor.
Hey, wait a minute, isn't that what most all of our military families are telling us?
We need an exit strategy when the job is done. Reality? It will never be done.
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posted on
08/19/2005 10:49:46 AM PDT
by
anton
To: kenavi; DTogo
1944 you meant? He said Truman, so it would have to be '45. Otherwise he should have said Roosevelt.
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posted on
08/21/2005 7:13:40 PM PDT
by
Excuse_Me
(How small, of all that human hearts endure, that part which laws and kings can cause or cure. --S.J.)
To: Excuse_Me
I forgot to mention about that. Thanks.
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posted on
08/22/2005 2:59:57 PM PDT
by
kenavi
("Remember, your fathers sacrificed themselves without need of a messianic complex." Ariel Sharon)
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