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To: unclewest who wrote (464081)	1/8/2012 6:45:01 PM
From: LindyBill	4 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793925

That is the left-wing, progressive, communist, al qaeda, and every other America hating groups' argument for dismantling the US Armed Forces. Gee, Mike, I thought you liked me! :>) I want to increase our capability, not decrease it. I am looking at it in today's world, not 1945. You still want to be ready to fight WWII. Look back at us in '01. We had a Fulda-Gap Army ready to fight WWII. They should have had an option as to how to handle an Afghan campaign, and they were CLUELESS. The CIA ran the war, using SF to do it, and an unwilling Air Force to take out the enemy. The Regular Army fought the way it was run all the way. One Battalion of Rangers in Tora Bora would have made a big difference in Dec of 01, and the Army would not let them get deployed. We dropped from a winning war there to a standard WWII offense and have been losing ever since. The Army then ran a WWII war in Iraq, and there went 10K men and a Trillion. People like me on the right want to change the DOD. The left wants to destroy it.

To: unclewest who wrote (464081)	1/8/2012 9:43:11 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Respond to of 793925

<A strong offensive capability is the best defense against attack. That is true at every level of humanity, even with children.> The best defence against attack is not needing a defence. Which means people having no reason to attack and on the contrary, considerable disincentive to do so. Which is not to say there are not times with some people in which the only sensible answer is the ability to destroy them. But that is rare. I don't go through my life attacking anything or anyone which doesn't have a strong offensive capability. Live and let live as far as is possible is the way to live. Even better than live and let live is Gung Ho lifestyle - "work together". Mqurice