[Tubbs]

Ok, in the event that my foot comes anywhere near my mouth I want to put my caveat at the begining of this post.
I am not, nor have I ever been a member of the special operations community. However, I am a United States Marine and I served in operations.
This is more of a question than a statement.

Doesn't it seem foolish that the Marine Corps is trying to move into the arena of FID? Shouldn't we be leaving this to the experts, I.E. US Army Special Forces?
The Marine Corps is designed to be an expiditionary force in readiness. We do have a valuable contribution to make to the special ops side of the War on Terror, but shouldn't we be playing to our strengths which would be the hunting down and elimating of terrorists. We arugably have more experience in this type of low intensiy warefare than the other branches of the military. I would like to reference FMFRP 12-15 "Small Wars Manual" to support this statement.
Wouldn't we do better to focus on DA and reconassaince? In fact, if we did this wouldn't it free Special Forces personal to conduct more FID missions?
Now, I'm a bit biased as I believe that my brother infantry Marines are the ultimate badasses, but that's because we come in and finish shit that other people start and can't finish. Nowhere in my short tenure in the Corps did FID come into that equation.
I'm not trying to talk smack, this shift is just confusing to me. In my copious research into the topic (at the behest of TR after I foolishly engaged him in an arguement as to the parameters of the SF mission vice that of USMC Force Recon) I have come to the conclusion that the only branch of the military with any serious level of FID expertise is SF.