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To: LindyBill who wrote (5955)	8/26/2003 7:04:48 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 793623

American troops only rarely could find the enemy If you can't find the enemy, how do you do ANYTHING, whether you are using special forces or conventional forces? Robert Andrews, a Green Beret in Vietnam who served as head of special operations in Rumsfeld's Pentagon until last year, argues that the Afghanistan war demonstrated that light, fast-moving special forces working with local allies can be far more effective against a terrorist enemy than conventional troops. I've read that before. And I still think it's a false analogy. There's a rather important component it conveniently forgets: The Northern Alliance. They did a LOT of the fighting against the Taliban. And kept Taliban forces pinned down defending where they made convenient targets for special forces. I don't the the Iraqi guerillas are going to be so accommodating. Bad news shouldn't stampede America into pulling out. That depends. There is such a thing as throwing good money after bad.