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Even if you think you are defeated, it is never a good idea to let the enemy know. They might be about to give up too.
I do not normally disagree with Ralph Peters, but IMHO, he should not have written this right now.
I do believe that PM al-Maliki should have gotten a very special phone call after the first incident asking him how long he thought he could continue to be PM without us, and if he preferred al-Sadr's militia to US forces.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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