Gramps, I just have to believe that all the approaches, options, resources, risks, contingencies and worst-case scenarios involved in the seizure and securing of Baghdad have been meticulously studied and game planned.
The guys with stars on their shoulders strategizing in Qatar weren't recruited from the parking lot of a suburban paint-ball range. They know about Tet, they were grumbling live and real time in VietNam and Beirut, they understand the lessons of Warsaw, Leningrad and Wounded Knee, they lived Mogadishu, they lived Port au Prince and Panama City and the Brits know the lessons of Belfast and understand the dynmaics of the Arab psyche and response to power projections very well.
Could they hustle up a Burger King date on the internet with a 14 year old who "HATES HER PARENTS to the max!" That may be outside the swing zone of Rummy, the Joint Chiefs and General Franks and his operational command. That's special, luring 14 year old girls for romance and courtship. That's pure Ritter ... when it's not pure Buttafuco.
We aren't going to get 10 miles outside Baghdad and call "the T" and huddle ... "ok, now what? What are the ways the 'Queen' piece can move again?"
Arne, you posted two paragraphs that need to be repeated and repeated for the whiners/moaners/doubters and maybe 5th columnists who want us to lose in Iraq:
Gramps, I just have to believe that all the approaches, options, resources, risks, contingencies and worst-case scenarios involved in the seizure and securing of Baghdad have been meticulously studied and game planned.
The guys with stars on their shoulders strategizing in Qatar weren't recruited from the parking lot of a suburban paint-ball range. They know about Tet, they were grumbling live and real time in VietNam and Beirut, they understand the lessons of Warsaw, Leningrad and Wounded Knee, they lived Mogadishu, they lived Port au Prince and Panama City and the Brits know the lessons of Belfast and understand the dynmaics of the Arab psyche and response to power projections very well.
Arne, right now we have a couple of Freepers who sound like Scott Ritter on the thread below. Maybe you would like to join in for awhile with your common sense and terrible sens of humor that rivals my dark humor!:)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/876803/posts