He'll have no choice but to go, I think. The US people won't stand for such a prolonged occupation. Expect the administration to start jacking up the rhetoric on reasons to extend the stay, though - WMDs nearby, Syria, Iran, continued terrorist threats, etc.
The Truth On Iraq: It's Devastated
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I agree with the first part of your statement.Ranger68 said:
Not sure the USA will need a base in Iraq to conduct operations nearby. Afghanistan should be quiet sufficent for that.
From a strategic point of view, do you think that really make s a difference?Ranger68 said:
I hope we are not getting involved in another full scale war against Syria. I was hoping for more of a "commando style attack", with narrowly defined goals.
The US military is so far advanced and the potential enemy *Syria* is relatively weak, the war could be won without having to be based in IRAQ.
If there is evidence that Syria supports the insurgency, an attack on those targets, should be warranted.
If there is evidence that Syria supports the insurgency, an attack on those targets, should be warranted.
Old bore, everybody is weak, militarily, against the US. But I cannot believe that you would like to see the current war expanded to the entire middle east.langeweile said:
The fact is, as cooler heads in the US has pointed out, that the US will eventually have to cut a deal with the insurgents in order to get out of Iraq.
Rummy lost his little war of liberation.
I wasn't talking about an expanded war.danmand said:
I was suggesting a "commando style" attack against any elements supporting the insurgency in Iraq.
Yes and I do hope it doesn't come to that, already too many people have died.
Some other articles and links from the same author:
Continuing Slaughter, Kidnappings, US Rhetoric
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6018.htm
Fallujah, Pacified
http://www.antiwar.com/jamail/?articleid=2753
Telltale Signs of Torture Lead Family to Demand Answers
http://www.strike-the-root.com/4/jamail/jamail3.html
Americans Slaughtering Civilians in Falluja
http://www.strike-the-root.com/4/jamail/jamail2.html
Detained, Bludgeoned and Electrocuted into a Coma
http://www.strike-the-root.com/4/jamail/jamail1.html
OTB
Continuing Slaughter, Kidnappings, US Rhetoric
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6018.htm
Fallujah, Pacified
http://www.antiwar.com/jamail/?articleid=2753
Telltale Signs of Torture Lead Family to Demand Answers
http://www.strike-the-root.com/4/jamail/jamail3.html
Americans Slaughtering Civilians in Falluja
http://www.strike-the-root.com/4/jamail/jamail2.html
Detained, Bludgeoned and Electrocuted into a Coma
http://www.strike-the-root.com/4/jamail/jamail1.html
OTB
OTB, do you think using cluster bombs on civilian populations is a good thing? Or a bad thing. Or are you somewhere inbetween..
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Where would they be based?langeweile said:
What type of "war" are you talking about?
If there is evidence that Syria supports the insurgents, perhaps the US should take that as yet another clue. That MANY Arabs don't agree with the invasion, to put it mildly.
The US would be treading on very thin ice if it expanded this war across national borders.
Does the bombing of Cambodia ring a bell? ........
What sort of "commando style attack"? Against what kinds of targets?langeweile said:
I think you've been watching too many James Bond movies.
You *do* realize that most of these "insurgents" merely think they're fighting against a foreign aggressor, right?
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They face the same problem with an incursion into Syria that they face with doing it in Iran - everyone would see it coming a mile away and it's a hardly secure launching site. Plus, if they start doing it, international support for the U.S. will be eroded because it'll look like they're only interested in Iraq as a staging area for strikes elsewhere in the region.
The 'El Salvador' Option
Here's an article from Newsweek on the possible use of death squads in Iraq.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010905V.shtml
So much for morality.
jwm
Here's an article from Newsweek on the possible use of death squads in Iraq.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010905V.shtml
So much for morality.
jwm
The same style attacks we should have used against Saddam in the first place.Ranger68 said:What sort of "commando style attack"? Against what kinds of targets?
I think you've been watching too many James Bond movies.
You *do* realize that most of these "insurgents" merely think they're fighting against a foreign aggressor, right?
Target the head and the snake will die.
