Why Does The Pentagon Want To Cut And Run?
July 13th, 2008, 8:35 PM EDT
A new report sponsored by the Pentagon will call for a steeper reduction of American troops in Iraq than even Democrats like Barak Obama are suggesting. The 300-page report by the Naval Postgraduate School of Monterey, CA, will recommend that by spring of 2009, troop levels go down to 50,000. The study also calls for–hold on to your cowboy hat–diplomacy and negotiations. The biggest problem with implementation: General David Patraeus, who is said to disagree with the report, says Newsweek.
Diplomacy will never work in this part of the middle east! “IRAQ ” It is hard enough to motivate their own countrymen to defend themselves. With neighbors like seria,pakistan & Iran you are mistaken to think otherwise. or we can punish our past presidents( clinton reagan carter) for not forcing this upon the middle east when (they) were in office.
or maybe patreus needs more time to ” sort it out ” in his head ?
July 13th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Sounds to me like the Pentagon is full of a bunch of
APPEASERS
July 13th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Why can’t we stay forever…
July 13th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Yea, why can’t we stay?
I mean we did start building permanent bases before we tried to get the water running and the eclectic grid back up.
July 14th, 2008 at 1:42 am
fury~ in all my days, i’ve never known anyone as retarded as you. LOL
July 14th, 2008 at 2:08 am
The war ended long ago. It took two years to find Saddam and the rest has been an occupation.
July 14th, 2008 at 4:08 am
The Vets for freedom group that has put out the recent advertisement talking about Iraq should consider a few real facts, instead of the half truth they have put out as truth. Fist off the surge has only succeeded in dispersing the Insurgent groups to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Turkey. Any decline in violence in Iraq is null and void due to the increase else where. The art of war, the art of guerrilla warfare, is go where the weak points are. That is what is really going on in the Middle East. We are a cat chasing its tail. When we refocus on Afghanistan, and the other hot spots the Insurgency will shift back to Iraq or other regions in the Middle East. We must realize that the defeat of the Soviet Union during the 1980’s is our future if we continue to occupy the Middle East with no exit plan. There is no winning the hearts and minds of those who do not want us there, even if we are attempting to bring them democracy and freedom. By the vote in 2005 in Iraq we have seen that they wish for religious tyranny. They voted for a theocracy. The one thing Iraq was not before we rushed in. Just because you can vote does not mean one has freedom or understands the concept of freedom. Iraq is like the Israeli v. Palestinian conflict. Quiet one day Violent the next. The ad attempts to portray a non-partisan feel although the talking points have the air of the past 8 years of conservative talking points. They have their freedom of speech, sure. But they also have the right to be wrong or challenged on their half truths.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Diplomacy and negotiations? Why, this is unamerican, it’s unpatriotic! It’s, it’s, APPEASEMENT!
July 14th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
The only reason this is happening is because November is getting closer and closer.
Any minute now they’ll be gabbing about another tax rebate to bribe us with.
July 14th, 2008 at 9:38 pm