Kinda like riding with a broken doohickey and not giving a shit about the end result. Just puttin yer head up, ass down and keep given er the throttle. Makes sense to the current administration.
flaterike wrote:
Ah, the infamous flypaper strategy.
This, of course, assumes that the number of "bad guys" is a constant.
It is not, and all indications point towards delta(bad guys) being
positive, and delta(delta(bad guys)) being positive as well, due to
the situation we've created in Iraq.
This could've been avoided.
It wasn't.
But, you know, "staying the course" is clearly the right thing to do,
since things are going so well.
erik
> I think you see it wrong..
>
> 1. We piss of all the bad guys and give them somewhere to
concentrate.
> 2. Now that we have them in one location we are able to kill them.
>
> I would much rather have a known location to kill the bad guys then
waste
> time trying to hunt them down.
>
> Since I don't think you have ever been in the military, I'll assume
you
> never thought of this as a strategy.
>
> Denis
>
>
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Conall wrote:
>
> > --- In
DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com, "Russell Scott"
> > wrote:
> > > For those who don't trust the government, read this instead.
Its a
> > > cornucopia of good news you never hear about in Iraq from the
> > lying, liberal
> > > media. For the blame/hate America first crowd, don't bother to
> > read it,
> > > your mind is already made up.
> > >
> > >
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110005610
> > >
> > > R > don't expect
> > > it to go unchallenged.
> >
> > The puppet PM of Iraq, Iyad Allawi, his sponsors, President Bush
and
> > VP Dick Cheney are all lying to the American public about the
real
> > situation in Iraq. They say things are getting better, that most
of
> > Iraq could vote in an election tomorrow and that "democracy and
> > freedom will prevail, without a doubt." Nonsense! Out and out
lies.
> >
> > The Sunni Triangle, Sadr City, Najaf, Ramadi, Karbala, Mosul,
Samarra-
> > all of these important centers, even Kirkuk, which once seemed
safe
> > in the hands of the Kurds, have all become no-go zones for the
> > American troops and the small number of Iraqis who dare venture
in to
> > be shot. America is bombing all of these places on an almost
daily
> > basis; thus, antagonizing more and more Iraqis and more Muslims
> > throughout the world.
> >
> > But US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said voting might
not
> > be possible in some areas where militants are active and the
violence
> > is too great.
> >
> > "Well, so be it, nothing is perfect in life, so you have an
election
> > that's not quite perfect. Is it better than not having an
election.?
image
> > than it is with reality, it prefers symbolism to substance:
soldiers
> > are dying here and being maimed and crippled for life. It is
tragic,
> > indeed criminal that our elected public servants would so
willingly
> > sacrifice our nation's prestige and honor as well as the blood
and
> > treasure to pursue an agenda that is ahistoric and un-
Constitutional.
today.
> > He married a Texas girl, I want you to know. (Laughter.) Karyn is
> > with us. A West Texas girl, just like me."
> > G.W. Bush
> > Nashville, Tenn., May 27, 2004
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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