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Originally Posted by Magnolia
I'm familiar with both and largely agree with their tenets. I'm not sure how the Powell Doctrine or Give War A Chance informs what we should do now that we're this far down the road, at a juncture where we're talking negotiations and releasing of prisoners, unless you're supporting invoking the Powell Doctrine starting now, 10+ years into the war.
I suppose we could send a Powell sized (540k troops) army to Afghanistan starting tomorrow but funding, public support and political capital would be in short supply. The last doubling of forces had little effect on the trajectory of the conflict. These are things we all know.
If your years of reliable experience tell you that that's a preferable option to negotiation with the enemy at this point then I guess we disagree.
Edit: I guess you could also mean that we should not negotiate and that the preferable option is to just leave, maybe I misunderstood you.
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I am a firm believer in given what has already transpired it is time for us to pull out and let the savages kill one another. If we would have gone in with overwhelming force in the beginning maybe I would think differently.
We have spilt too much blood over a people who has no need or want of a better way of life. But I also believe we need them to understand that if they attack us again they will become a glass parking lot.