[lit-ideas] Re: Dark Thoughts on Iraq
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:25:31 -0400
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 9/29/2005 11:55:50 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Dark Thoughts on Iraq
>
> Stan wrote of Marlena's posted strategy:
>
> Nothing's changed because the oil spot strategy requires a major
> influx of military to handle the necessary security. If one area at
> a time is secured and expanded, it needs to be protected so the
> residents there feel able to function safely every day: take their
> kids to school, go to work safely, enjoy their lives again.
>
> A friend interested in military history also sent me this, which
> confirms what Stan wrote:
>
> yeah, that was the old "ink blot" theory from Vietnam, and it was in
> Foreign Affairs recently ... the problem is that it concedes safe
> areas to the enemy while you're waiting for the ink blot to expand,
> and then you're in the same kind of race we're in now: can we create
> faster than they can destroy? ... and we'd need a much larger
> military, something akin to the cold war force that Clinton halved
> during the fantasy of the "peace dividend."
>
Once again, it's Clinton's fault what Bush did. It's Clinton's fault too
that they had no plan at all for what happened after the invasion.
Clinton's fault that Tommy Franks just left, etc. etc. Thank God for
Clinton or we'd think Bush was a lousy president.
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