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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: John Soileau who wrote (134521)5/27/2004 10:55:17 AM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
"The Bush administration began diverting attention, money and soldiers from Afghanistan to prepare for an invasion of Iraq before it had defeated al-Qaida and the Taliban, according to senior U.S. military officials and a new book by Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward."

Diverting? Or transferring one military asset for another?

For example, many SF teams initially deployed to Afghanistan were replaced by 82nd Airborne and 10th Mountain Division forces.

But we've pretty much maintained our force strength in that country, although changing the "mix". Any sign that the US was decreasing its commitment of forces to the country would make it difficult to maintain the quantity of NATO forces currently assisting there..

globalsecurity.org

As for your comments related to S. Korea, I noticed that you completely avoided any response to Bush's multilateral attempts at resolving the problem with Kim Jong Il..

Should we assume you are an advocate of American Unilaterialism??

And with regard to troop strength, I concur with Unclewest's comments. Should Kim Jong Il be foolish enough to invade the south, a nuclear response would likely be justified by the US.

And Kim Jong Il knows that.. And so does China, which would rather avoid such an escalation.. Bejing, IMO, would apply whatever pressure is necessary to prevent Kim Jong Il from taking such a rash course of action.

Hawk
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