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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (159873)	2/6/2009 11:54:50 AM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Respond to of 361952

duh. that is what Gates, bless his heart, is trying to get across... we already have a fleet of jets in the F-22 mode that can stomp anyone. If the need arrises, we will make more in no time, but it is unlikely for decades... the field has changed... what we need has changed. And I would not mind, perhaps welcome, upping pay a bit for soldiers and bringing more on board. give them the truth of education in return. focus some resourses on bringing in people who know languages and put energy and funds to educating people in languages. I have been reading "The Strongest Tribe". It is a condemnation of BushCompany. But also worries about taking all troops out, tho he suggests leaving a couple of units at a cost of about 12B a year. That's reasonably if it works for the Iraquis. His main thrust was how dealing with Iraq came from the bottom up... from the soldiers on the ground who learned and listened and changed stategy... which sounds like a way to go in Afganistan. Petraeus (sp?) who McCain brags on and blahblah... he was speaking out years ago and laughed off and pushed off. Turns out he was right. The surge was not about 'killing more', it was just enough boots to go about things in the bottom-up way he saw worked. McCain is not for him or his ways any more than Bush was. It was not a military gun-fire thing... it was enough troops to work with the Iraqis to turn things around. We could do that in Afganistan.