SI
SI
discoversearch

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor.  We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community.  If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.
Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
 Public ReplyPrvt ReplyMark as Last ReadFilePrevious 10Next 10PreviousNext  
To: Sun Tzu who wrote (224296)3/15/2007 12:49:46 PM
From: one_less  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
4) Are the answers to above questions predominantly political and devoid of any purely military objectives?

You did not even attempt to answer this question, but I think it is obvious that they are all political objectives and answers rather military ones.

We have a military force that is a service to the civilian government and to a major extent lead by the Political Administration.

Which brings us back to your misguided bickering about "it would be according to military strategies rather than left vs right political ones".

Explain to us how that could be possible? How can the determination of troop levels in Iraq exist outside of the political war within the US?

That initial (left vs right) comment by me was in reference to partisan extrenism having its own goals, which are at times non-constructive due to the exploitive nature of extremism. Congress is otherwise an essential element to US military operations.

An old example of how left vs right can be exploitatious could be understood, is through the system of common code speak associated with each. The left are 'peace freaks' ... that is code speak for the radical left that has a socialist agenda and could care less if Iraq desolved into genocidal civil conflict. The right are 'war hawks'... that is code speak for the radical right that doesn't care to engage in violent conflict themselves anymore that the average person does but has a monocultural ideal of society that is founded on judeo christian and anglo-saxon history.

So when these left vs right extremists begin to exploit other problems in the world to push their disassociated agendas, they interfere with the kind of rational discourse that could constructively help to resolve modern problems, like troop levels in Iraq.
Report TOU ViolationShare This Post
 Public ReplyPrvt ReplyMark as Last ReadFilePrevious 10Next 10PreviousNext  

HomeMailHotSubjectMarksPeopleMarksKeepersSettings
Terms Of UseContact UsCopyright/IP PolicyPrivacy PolicyAbout UsFAQAdvertise on SI
© 2025 Knight Sac Media.  Data provided by Twelve Data, Alpha Vantage, and CityFALCON News