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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (190470)	6/30/2006 5:55:15 PM
From: RMF	Read Replies (2) of 281500

It's not a question of "hindsight", it's a question of foresight. The 150k troops would NOT have had to be "maintained" (it was a different situation from Iraq). That troop strength would have allowed us to create a stable environment there (including all the provinces) which would have allowed an organized and internationally supported reconstruction program. We could have systematically pulled our troops out as NATO troops moved in. In two years we would have been out except for a 20k force and even that would only be stationed on permanent bases. What we got now is chaos...with the Taliban having regrouped and moving back in and Tribal Warlords controlling everything outside Kabul and the members of the Northern Alliance insisting on having their say in anything Karzai does. It's just a MESS. On my part it's not just hindsight, cause I've said all along that using the Northern Alliance as mercenaries to run that war on the cheap would come back to bite us.

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