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Trooper
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| Here's what's scary: CJCS: Navy (Mullen) SOUTHCOM: Navy (Stavridis) CENTCOM: Navy (Fallon) PACOM: Navy (Keating) SOCOM: Navy (Olson) DNI: Navy (McConnell (Ret.)) Guess we should start talking Squid.
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Stare Master
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Gee, it's a good thing we're not in a major ground conflict anywhere, huh.
Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you, Jesus Christ and the American GI. One died for your soul, the other for your freedom.
"History teaches that when you become indifferent and lose the will to fight someone who has the will to fight will take over." COLONEL BULL SIMONS
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Hey at least the new War Czar is an Army guy
1/508th Abn Inf, 82nd Abn Div 81-83 1/4th Inf (Mech), 3rd Inf Div (USAEUR) 83-84 SGT\EIB\Recondo "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." - Groucho Marx
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Trooper
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Wow, Adm. Edmund Giambastiani is out too. Looks like anyone tainted by Rumsfeld should be looking for the door.
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RedDevil (6/8/2007)
Hey at least the new War Czar is an Army guy
The designated fall guy wears green. Whoop-de-doo.
I'd think you'd want someone in the big comfy chair that A) is intimately familiar with land warfare, B) knows how to get things done without letting the whole world peak behind the curtain, and C) is intimately familiar with irregular, guerrilla style warfare. Are there any SF type brass that are crazy enough to delve into the political cesspool and get things clicking along?
"When a HEAT round strikes a tank, it creates pure hate and discontent."
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Are there any SF type brass that are crazy enough to delve into the political cesspool and get things clicking along?
I believe that all of them realize that the answers lie in "black" ops tactics which must cross the line at times. America can't do those things right out in the open or on any kind of large scale. We probably can't do them much at all in today's world of high tech communications because our involvement would probably wind up on the evening news. We're not intimidating the enemy. They don't fear us. I think the Iraqi's that support us fear our collateral damage mistakes way more than any insurgent fears our ability on the battlefield. We need to support Iraqi "death squads" to brutalize the insurgents like we did in Latin America back in the '70's and '80's. We keep our hands "clean" that way. Making their forces disappear during the night without a trace or leaving a huge pile of their butchered flesh will demoralize them. I don't believe in hurting children or having anyone witness a member of their family being disposed of. I do believe in the art of intimidation. In Latin America it was common to hang a hundred insurgents from the trees along their supply routes or to crucify them on rows of crosses. Bodies were butchered in mass and left in the open. The US ran this stuff for years without much more than a "black eye" in the public view. I'll bet that you won't even find one person in a thousand who'd even remember that we were at war down there. Those restrictions are why I think we won't get any hooah General grabbing for the reigns. That is also why we're destined to never get a victory in Iraq.
 "Veritas Omnia Vincula Vincit"......."Send Me"......"Sua Sponte" When life sucks....make it swallow! "Modify the wedge! First squad! Bound!....."
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Hossra (6/8/2007)
SOCOM: Navy (Olson)Yeah - But that should say: SOCOM: Navy (Olson) (SEAL) I would say that counts as a ground warrior. Especially with his Somalia time factored in...
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