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03-02-2007, 10:00
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enterfirst
03-02-2007, 10:05
I wish I could be there to contribute. Thanks for the encouraging article. It seems so refreshingly out of place.
BMT: Great article! Refreshing and true. Why isn't this published in all major Newspapers here. Oh! I forget, Newsmedia,(in their majority), also want us to loose this war!
From what I have read and being told by those who were there, Vietnam was lost by the Congress and Newsmedia. The Kerry's and other War Protestors.
Our soldiers did not loose a single battle! DejaVu?
* The tactic of stationing U.S. units and their Iraqi counterparts down in the Baghdad 'hoods is already paying off. (It should have been used from the outset - instead of hunkering down on massive bases. But better late than never.) The effort has triggered a flood of intelligence tips: When citizens feel safe, they cooperate. And when they help us, our success compounds.
Didn't some one else say this similar thing in another thread? Isn't this the way we took down the Taliban in A-Stan. I know that there we had a hard target to go after and we had indigenous troops there to help us.
We are starting to gain some support from the IA and IP, but we need to try to help them get the insurgents out of these organizations. Whether that is by helping them with better pay or better protection. Why haven't we deployed this tactic prior to the recent past?
I don't understand the thought process some of the upper chain uses. Something worked in the past and now we have a similar situation let’s deploy a completely new "game plan". Instead of doing what worked before.
I have always been told not to re-invent the wheel anytime you are approached with a task, yet anytime something happens our commanders want to try new things. Have they forgotten this concept?
I am not trying to degrade our command or trying to second guess them, since they are much more educated and experienced than I, I am just trying to get a better understanding of the situation. If I get the call today to pack up and go I'm gone and will do anything I am asked.