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Old 08-13-2007, 08:34 PM   #1
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Cheney, et al still did not grasp basic concepts of war.
I thought that Phase one was to let the military fight the war - not politicians. Didn't we learn that from Vietnam?
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Old 08-13-2007, 09:31 PM   #2
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I thought that Phase one was to let the military fight the war - not politicians.
Not quite. "Phase one" should be "why do we need this war?"

The answer, were we to let the military decide, would simply be "because our purpose is to fight wars."
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Old 08-14-2007, 12:22 AM   #3
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I thought that Phase one was to let the military fight the war - not politicians. Didn't we learn that from Vietnam?
The politicians should define the purpose of the war, and the military should determine the methodology, getting approval from the President for anything out of the ordinary. But without a purpose, methodology is useless for anything but "stay the course", with the course a holding pattern.
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