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Indeed, destroy the nest.

Does anyone think that terrorists will be just sitting around in "terrorist barracks" while loads of Green Berets tip toe up on them?

Anyone recall how badly heliborne ops can go? Mogadishu? Desert One? Can you imagine sending companies of specops troops all over Afganistan chasing rumors of terrorist camps, only to fly into stinger missile ambushes from the mountain tops? So quickly these missions would turn into rescue missions of our downed choppers.

The folks calling for ground combat in Afganistan sound EXACTLY like the "Airmobile" gurus saying in 1964 that we would whip the pitiful scrawny little Viet Cong in a few months.

Jungle then, mountains now, our techno tricks don't work so well away from the flat open deserts and fields

So quickly these missions would turn into rescue missions of our downed choppers.

Yep ala the debacle of the "Iranian hostage rescue disaster". I put my faith in Bush's reliance on his military advisors as to what the military should do. When the politicians play "military strategy" the end result is failure in EVRY case. All of us wannbe commandos can have a lot of fun playing “what if” but, thankfully, GW is NOT relying on us. Thanks for your service.

The folks calling for ground combat in Afganistan sound EXACTLY like the "Airmobile" gurus saying in 1964 that we would whip the pitiful scrawny little Viet Cong in a few months.

It was politicians and their pitiful "limited war" which doomed the Vietnam effort. NOT logistics.

Turn hell-and-a-half loose on the Afghan terrorists. There is no love lost between them and 90% of the US population.

>>Anyone recall how badly heliborne ops can go? Mogadishu? Desert One?<<

Both were Chinese firedrills because the civiliain pukes in the White House were trying to run them long-distance,and not a SINGLE one of the JCS's had the balls to stand up to them and tell them to get the hell out of the way and let the professional military run a military operation. You had people making military decisions who had never served a single day in the military,and in one case you had that fool Carter making the decisions.

>>Can you imagine sending companies of specops troops all over Afganistan chasing rumors of terrorist camps, only to fly into stinger missile ambushes from the mountain tops?<<

Spec Ops doesn't work like that when they go operational. Either the man on the ground is the one making the tactical decisions,or nobody goes anywhere. I know this hasn't been policy since Carter,but have reason to believe things are now different.This may not be the case with the conventional army or the USMC,but it is the case with Spec Ops.