Gonz said:Where did these generals stand in 2001, 2002, 2003, etc?
2minkey said:does ideology matter when the basic issue seems to be incompetence?
Winky said:Just a half dozen guys
bad mouthing our Commander-in-Chief
in time of war...
2minkey said:yeah. or maybe they can now speak freely so they're doing so?
maybe there's a post for you in the politburo... they don't like dissent there either.
2minkey said:sure, three years ago before the overall lack of a real strategy and real evidence of half-assed planning became obvious.
nah, then it would have been dismissed as naysayer speculation.
duh...
Gato_Solo said:Usually, when a country goes to war, the exit strategy is in the final stages of planning...unless the war is unexpected. Then the exit strategy is started when the war starts. Considering this war was over within 3 weeks, how much of a plan do you think they had? The war went quite well...too well...but the exit is planned. Just not to your liking. You want detailed information, and spelled out goals, but that's not how it works. Bottom line is, we leave when we think the job is done, and not before.
2minkey said:Hmmmm.... I really didn't notice that the war had ended after three weeks. Seems more like three years to me. Funny thing is, the administration was naive enough to think they could get in and out quickly. Anybody with a smidgen of knowledge of the area and its people woulda said "bullshit" at that one. Piss poor and uninformed planning is absolutely the case.