[fporretto]

Generally I respect Col. Hackworth's opinions, but I think he's being a bit myopic here. Napoleon was once shown a proposed defensive deployment of the French Army that spread the soldiers uniformly along the nation's border. His comment was: "It's very interesting. What are you guarding against? Smugglers?"

This is a battle in which the enemy must be rooted out and destroyed, not permitted to strike further. We must go to where he shelters, to his logistical base, and eliminate it and as many of his soldiers and supporters as possible. That's the Middle East: principally, Iraq, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. If we refuse to take the war to the enemy and destroy his ability to keep his forces in the field, he will continue his "asymmetric war" against us until, out of sheer terror, we have produced the sort of totalitarian society here that he wants for us.

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Francis W. Porretto
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[SLB]

This needs to be w two pronged approach. Home land defense (maybe even offense) and taking the war to where ever the terrorists are based.

[Michael2001]

This is a battle in which the enemy must be rooted out and destroyed, not permitted to strike further. We must go to where he shelters, to his logistical base, and eliminate it and as many of his soldiers and supporters as possible. That's the Middle East: principally, Iraq, Iran, and Saudi Arabia.

The enemy is right here.

[FITZ]

We must go to where he shelters, to his logistical base, and eliminate it and as many of his soldiers and supporters as possible.

They aren't a traditional army with traditional soldiers, their soldiers are terrorists who have infiltrated and will further infiltrate us and attempt to kill civilians. What we saw on Sept 11, 2001 was the way these people do war, in Sudan it wasn't the Sudan army which was attacked, it was innocent citizens ---millions.