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To: unclewest who wrote (449877)	10/9/2011 8:54:48 AM
From: unclewest	5 Recommendations Respond to of 793917

To continue my own rant - This is a recipe for disaster. news.yahoo.com We have 140,000 troops in Afghanistan pissing off every local they meet everyday. Now the plan is to pullout and leave A teams scattered in the wilderness to sort things out. When virtually the entire population is anti-US, A Teams cannot do it alone. While they are very good at deliberately initiating fights with much larger enemy forces, they do need a reliable reinforcing force when they get into the bigger battles. And they need readily available combat air support. That means we have to leave enough of a substantial ground force with helicopters and USAF attack aircraft to reinforce all of Afghanistan….something that is not in the plan and therein is the looming disaster.

To: unclewest who wrote (449877)	10/9/2011 11:07:01 AM
From: KLP	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793917

What would be very efective is for you and several other SF people to write your book.....Also, contact Cain and Romney both....Explain to each of them why it is so important.... Reading that review...this sentence and paragraph stuck out....don't we have any strategic planners any more? If not, why? >>>>>It was Westmoreland—not Lyndon Johnson or even Robert McNamara—who decided to fight a "war of attrition," sending large and cumbersome American formations to thrash through the jungle and rice paddies in search of elusive enemy units. It was Westmoreland who kept demanding more American troops and who encouraged them to fire as many artillery rounds as possible—even if they lacked specific targets. It was Westmoreland who made "body counts" the key metric of the entire war effort in the futile hope that the United States could inflict enough casualties on the Communists to make them cry "Uncle!" He did not seem to realize or care that in the process he was inflicting lesser but still considerable casualties on American forces—and that a democracy like the United States was much more casualty-averse than a one-party dictatorship like North Vietnam. <<<<<

To: unclewest who wrote (449877)	10/10/2011 10:54:36 AM
From: Neeka	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793917

I should also point out that while Obama makes plans for huge DOD cuts, and Cain speaks about 999 and Perry talks about illegals and scholarships, the only candidate that has discussed any notion or plan to keep America's military strong and just how important that is - is Romney. All due respect uw, but I must disagree and point out: "Our own "Phoney War" - Newt Gingrich" youtube.com! "Why is the Left Opposed to American Victory? - Newt Gingrich" youtube.com "Consequences of Defeat in Iraq -- Newt Gingrich" youtube.com!