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"value" Training
Topic Started: Jun 2 2006, 10:25 AM (334 Views)
cmoehle
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Chris - San Antonio TX
What it comes down to is what are the alternatives?

The American Way of War: And the constraints on American power
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America knows a ground war in the Middle East is not our theater of choice in the postmodern age — and yet necessary to undermine both Middle East autocracy and fundamentalism that hand-in-glove lead to the conditions that caused September 11. If we succeed, the Middle East stabilizes and enters modernity, leaving its pariahs on the margins. If we fail, we resort back to punitive bombing as a method of deterring enemies and will reenter the pre-9/11 paradigm of states sending out terrorists and either hoping we won’t hold them accountable or send in only a few cruise missiles.

The outcome of the insurgents’ war will hinge on whether we assess our own strengths and weaknesses in this sort of fighting far better than does our canny enemy. And that answer in turn will determine whether Iraq and Afghanistan shatter the aspirations of our enemies — or turn out to be colossal Mogadishus.
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
--Barry Goldwater
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campingken
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Sorry Tom but I don't see how shooting 4 year olds in the head will make us safer or help us win the war in Iraq.

The Germans tried to subdue conquered lands by inflicting LOTS of pain on the local people yet it did not stop the resistance so perhaps something more is needed to win a war. As I recall they would shoot up to 50 citizens, age and gender didn't matter, for every German soldier killed. What would you suggest we do in Iraq to top this?

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