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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Katelew who wrote (196640)8/10/2006 6:04:07 PM
From: geode00  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
It's not a Delay original thought or anything. It's the Powell doctrine.

It's X number of boots on the ground for Y number of people on the ground. In Iraq that number was around 450,000 or about triple what we had. That's the number I remember from way back when.

Mention that number and you get early retirement in the revamped Rumsfeld army. Since we have so few boots on the ground, we keep taking ground and then have to move away to do something else and then come back again....lather,rinse, repeat.

It must be endlessly frustrating as well as hugely destructive to the civilian population.

The other problem is the permanent bases and embassy we're building. That huge base in the desert is a good sized town and that requires endless convoys to bring in materials. Apparently internet access, big screen tvs, multiple flavors of ice cream, refrigerated dessert cases and silver trays are a necessity for Rummy's fast moving military. Small wonder so many have been killed by IEDs, they're always running around in trucks.

Although Rummy supposedly wants a small, high-tech, fast moving force he seems unable to remember that permanency requires a very long supply line. It also requires high usage for the equipment. Our equipment wasn't really made for this kind of damage so we now have a huge bill just to get the military back up to where it was.

Small wonder this is costing us $11million/hour with no end in sight. We're not just fighting a 'war' we're building a colonial outpost in a hostile country.
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