Occasionally, you actually believe that Congress gets it.
I see a whole lot of ways this can go sideways, even if passed, but at least it is acknowledgement.
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Panel Urges Change In Socom's Priorities
By RICHARD LARDNER The Tampa Tribune
Published: May 14, 2007
TAMPA - The House Armed Services Committee, signaling its discontent with the Bush administration's use of special operations forces, wants more emphasis placed on unconventional warfare and less on the "direct action" missions aimed at killing or capturing individual terrorists.
In the committee's version of legislation that would fund the military in fiscal year 2008, the committee is proposing to change a 20-year-old law listing the activities handled by the special operations community.
Topping the list is direct action, which is defined as "short duration strikes" intended to cause damage or seize objects in areas off-limits to U.S. troops.
According to the committee, direct action should fall to a "lower priority" while unconventional warfare would rise to first place.
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