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To: sam_paine

What is your alternative to fighting this War on all fronts?
What is your alternative to democracy (or republicanism, whichever you prefer to call it)?


139 posted on 08/12/2006 11:50:22 AM PDT by olrtex
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To: olrtex
Meddling Congress, opposition cabinet, Knesset whatever form....has no business meddling in the minute-by-minute strategy on the field of battle.

Only way a democracy can run a successful war is to have a strong democratically-elected CINC that gets a carte blanche "GO" declaration of war from a democratically-elected congress.

Congress should be judicious with a declaration of war so that once they turn it on, it either goes to victory, or they can sign a treaty.

My limited point is, if you are going to your individual democratic representatives to suggest or push certain changes in military strategy, then the wheels are already off.

In the Revolutionary War, Congress and Cornwallis were often aligned against Washington's victory. In Vietnam, LBJ and his cabinet were choosing bombing targets. In this war, we cannot have Lamont and Frist dictating "compromise" war strategy.

They say making legislation is like making sausage....everyone likes the result, but the process is messy. I think making war strategy through legislation will just turn soldiers into sausage.

191 posted on 08/13/2006 7:41:54 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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