OK, so in which categoy do you place the post-MISSION ACCOMPLISHED occupation? Maybe that was a no-plan operation.

Perhaps dugger could bring to light the contingency plan for defusing an insurgency before it evolved into a sectarian civil war — remote as that scenario may have been.

Got it? Good!

Well, except for plans for occupying a conquered Iraq, if the Sec. of Defense threatens to fire the next person who suggests it.

For example, anyone who might have suggested in 1938 that in barely six years we’d have to stage a massive amphibious invasion of France against formidable defenses and fierce resistance, they’d have been locked up in the looney bin.

Maybe we’ll need this plan, maybe we won’t. But to point to a military plan and say that it reflects defined intentions and goals is silliness at best.

J.

The irony of this statement is mind-boggling.

Here’s a plan. Let’s do ANYTHING other than the ruinous path that Bush has lied us down and intends to stay on, regardless of the damage or cost.

Yeesh.

So CINC/OW would have NO plans for an extended stay in Iraq?? Right? No plans at all (hooray, I actually typed ‘plan’ correctly).

Pedro, how many troops have we had “parked” on North Korea’s border for the last fifty years? How well did that keep them from “acting up”?

Is that the best example of your “deep thought” on military strategy? Because it seems pretty weak.

Having a substantial military force in the middle east is a good idea. People like Iran and syria will think twice before acting up if they know there are a brace of F-15 wings, and M1A1 Abrams tanks parked on their borders

Yeah, sure scared Kim Jong Il out of pursuing his nuclear weapons program didnt it? Whole doctrine of provokation and intimidation is working wonders isnt it?
Or wait, you think Iran and Syria will keep in line because of proximity? Because we’re on the borders? Because Iran for instance wont say “They have numerous enemies in Iraq, and they have numerous enemies here in Iran, so we basically have them surrounded and outnumbered” and that they’ll be so afraid of being so easily to overpower us in a simple concerted effort that they’ll throw up the white flag in a heartbeat? This is honestly what you think? We’re strangers in a strange land with a long history of violence and currently full of people who do not want us there, but the fact that we’ve got a whole bunch of guns, not necessarily more or better guns, just the fact that we got us a whole bunch of them, that thats going to keep everybody peaceful?
You think this plan is working so far?

Tell it to Appeaser-in-chief Bush, who pulled our forces out of Saudi.

“why a group of people.. sees fit to have deep thoughts on the “strategery”

Pedro, one day you’ll understand that the U.S. invasion of Iraq was the greatest, costliest strategic mistake of our lives. Worse even than Vietnam. And I, and the American people know this, even though we weren’t all generals, too.

Here is an idea for you….

Having a substantial military force in the middle east is a good idea. People like Iran and syria will think twice before acting up if they know there are a brace of F-15 wings, and M1A1 Abrams tanks parked on their borders….