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To: Whitebeard who wrote (199073)	3/13/2007 4:12:13 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793838

whose fault, uncle? the usual line is that there's enough to go around. They had plenty of time between Viet Nam and Iraq. Why can't we fight an insurgency? and it isn't all JAG. I agree there is plenty to go around, and I agree it is not all JAG. Fixing fault is not going to accomplish anything. Hell we are witnessing a fault fixing exercise at Walter Reed. As usual we are searching for the guilty and punishing too many innocents. The Walter Reed affair has become both an exercise to protect the congressional BRAC (Base realignment Act) teams from criticism and a feel good thing. The war sucks and nobody knows how to win, so we go off and enlist the entire country in an exercise to make life better for a coupla dozen walking wounded living in one of the 66 buildings at Walter Reed and everybody thinks they are supporting the troops. I agree fixing the building is important. I don't think we need every member of our national leadership supervising the painters. That is merely posturing and looking for face time. After the rooms are clean, we need to reexamine our war fighting machine and every level of supervision. Our own history tells us what to do. 1. The last war we won was declared by Congress. We have to get Congress fully committed. I don't think we should go to war again without that declaration. 2. Our wars should be on a pay as you go basis. Get the American people involved. Give them a stake in the outcome if only with thier pocketbooks. 3. Use the selective service system every time we go to war. That will increase the stake of every American in both the outcome and quicker resolutions. 4. Eliminate DOD. DOD has not won a war since it was founded in 1947. Make the services independent as they were prior to DOD. Give the supervisory role back to Congressional committees. Make congress earn their pay and participate in a collaborative war decision making process that includes every level of our government. Use the 5 star rank when a higher HQ is needed to coordinate the services. 5. Eliminate at least half of the 35 or 36 levels of intelligence analysis we now have. We need more agents not more analysts. 6. We are seeing too much free-lancing and not enough willingness to follow our established doctrines. Get rid of generals who fail to abide congressional war fighting mandates. Give me 5 minutes and I'll think of six more.