04-11-2007, 07:59
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Romney: 100,000 new troops?
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04-11-2007, 08:23
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Unless he's going to import them via the guest worker program, I don't see 100,000 young Americans getting off their collective hindquarters, putting down their PlayStations, and giving up their freedoms in defense of people they'll never know. Not the "me" generation.*
I guess this means we're going to have a clone army 
*I'm part of the me generation
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04-11-2007, 08:43
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I do not think that he has a serious hope of being POTUS, so IMHO, the point is moot.
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04-11-2007, 20:05
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Originally Posted by The Reaper
I do not think that he has a serious hope of being POTUS, so IMHO, the point is moot.
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People didn't think Bubba from Arkansas would get elected either.
He's got a strong support net in Utah...will have to see if that net can stretch from CA to FL to ME to WA...
Unfunded mandate was the first thing to come to mind. It's wishful thinking in a naive way...like John Kerry's pledge to "double SOF"...
We need it...I hope he's got a legit plan to follow through...talk is cheap.
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04-11-2007, 20:14
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The way I see it, if he says 100k, budgets for 75k, and actually gets 50k then we're still 50k better off.
Same thing with Kerry's "double SOF" promise. Anyone who understands SOF realizes thats a ridiculous idea (there was a great article on how absurd the recruiting numbers to do that would be), but even if it only ended up actually adding one more SF group and one more SEAL team, the country is still that much metter off.
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04-12-2007, 14:10
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The way I see it, if he says 100k, budgets for 75k, and actually gets 50k then we're still 50k better off.
Same thing with Kerry's "double SOF" promise. Anyone who understands SOF realizes thats a ridiculous idea (there was a great article on how absurd the recruiting numbers to do that would be), but even if it only ended up actually adding one more SF group and one more SEAL team, the country is still that much metter off.
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Numbers are meaningless without definition of the mix involved, the proper definition of national interests and a complete overhaul in the understanding of and exercise of national power in support of those correctly defined national interests. Since when has the military been the lead element in the resolution of counter-insurgency, or in keeping with the "new military doctrinal jargon of the day" irregular warfare?
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