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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: michael97123 who wrote (221757)2/28/2007 8:38:49 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (6) of 281500
 
If Powell doctrine had been followed and 500,000 troops went in and succesffully pacified the country and we supported these troops with taxes at home and with funds from other nations a la gulf war, it would be a different story. The plan failed, was not adjusted to reality and now we stew in the juices we produced

I would say rather the plan failed, WAS adjusted for reality, the enemy adjusted also, the Coalition adjusted again, and so on. This is a thinking enemy who has been get a lot of help from safe havens across the borders, a problem that could not have been prevented by 500,000 US troops - at least not by that alone.

Newspaper reporters became wedded to the idea that Bush doesn't change so they are don't report change at all or triumphantly announce a "180 degree change of positions." One or the other.

This is another corollary of newspapers refusing to cover the war as a war, just as a body count. Readers never perceive tactics changing because they are rarely reported and never put in context.
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