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To: geode00 who wrote (217025)	2/8/2007 9:15:36 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (4) of 281500

Which is why I'm so amazed that no one talks about WHY the US Military can't win in Iraq. Why? First, because the US military is being asked to accomplish a task that it's not trained or equipped to accomplish. Even the world's best hammer makes a very lousy screwdriver. Second, because wars are fought to achieve political objectives, and they are won when those objectives are achieved. The US military was asked to defeat Saddam's armed forces and remove him from power. Those are tasks appropriate to an armed force, and those tasks were achieved quickly and efficiently. The subsequent objective - establishing a functional and generally accepted government in Iraq - was not appropriate to an armed force, and may not have been achievable by any means available to the US. Naturally, it was not accomplished. The fault there lies with the people who selected an unachievable objective and pursued it with inappropriate tools, not with the tools that were used. If you try to use a hammer to drive a screw, you'll make a mess. Blaming the hammer for the mess is pretty pointless. Nothing there to be amazed about.

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