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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (40751)8/29/2002 10:09:33 PM
From: Dayuhan   of 281500
 
.) Military.. The US can NOT be seen as weak in the face of militant Islam. We have to be seen as willing to hunt them down where ever they are, and to exert whatever pressure required upon the governments sheltering them.

There is one other thing, I think, that we must not do. We must not allow ourselves to be baited into a position where we are occupying hostile territory, or any situation that can be converted into a war of attrition. We have an offensive military force that is impossible to oppose, but once it goes static and takes on the role of an occupier it becomes very vulnerable.

This is a role that the Islamic militants badly want to coax us into, IMO, and we have to be smart enough to avoid it. We should not embark on military ventures without a clear exit strategy.
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