herfacechair -> RE: An example of why our military loves the press .... (11/8/2007 7:34:26 PM)
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ORIGINAL: herfacechair Under asymmetrical warfare, allowing a dictator to play cat and mouse games with regards to his WMD programs, given his past history of supporting terrorists, given his hosting radical terrorist conventions, given his making death to America statements, and given Bin Laden’s search for WMD, and better ways to kill more Americans, not going into Iraq would’ve been equivalent to letting someone play with matches in a room you’re both in, when it’s flooded with gasoline. ......very few people agree with this analysis. It smacks of sophistry, the building of a merely superficially logical case to support an action you've already decided on. The logic you have used to support the invasion of Iraq is useable to support the invasion of many countries; Venezuala, Cuba, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria, Ecuador, Libya, to name but a few....imagine if that logic is followed through on.....all those countries world wide being invaded by a first nation engaging in pre-emptive strikes. Not a happy world, i'd imagine. Giving the impracticality of your doctrine if it were applied to all the cases it applies to, perhaps there's an argument for rethinking the strategy. And which people did you talk to in order to get that assumption that “very few” people agree with my assessment? Whoever they are, I highly doubt that you talked to the majority of the people in the military, specifically those that have combat deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. What I’ve found is that the vast majority of the people that have first hand accounts, who have access to more information than the general public, who have experiences that the general public doesn’t have, hold the same assessments that I have. But enough information is out there that people who’re willing to get off their hind ends to research material, vice allowing biased news organizations to spoon feed them selected bits and pieces, can arm themselves with enough knowledge to know more than those that don’t do the same. What you quoted is reality. That represents the majority view in every place I’ve been in with regards to the military. And we each came up to that conclusion on our own. Also, this isn’t something that I cooked up just to defend something that’s already happened. Unrestricted Warfare wasn’t new when President Bush took office. Read the text of his speech post 9/11, and you’ll see asymmetrical warfare themes. Iraq as the next step after Afghanistan made perfect sense with regards to asymmetrical warfare. It was a no brainer. On your attempts to say that I could use this argument to invade a list of other countries. In order for your assumption to work, please answer this question. Which country, out of those that you listed, meets ALL of the following criteria: 1. Involved in a hot war with us within the past 18 years 2. Violated a cease fire agreement with us with regards to weapons terrorists could use to wreck massive damage on our soil . . . 3. Played cat and mouse games with the U.N. with the weapons mentioned in #2 . . . 4. Invaded two of it’s neighbors within a 12 year span in the past 20 years . . . 5. Gased its own people? Find me a nation, out of your list, that meets ALL of those five criteria, and you’ll have a point. You’d prove that you’ve understood what I was getting at. And the fact that you’d turn around and say that we could use my reasoning to invade those countries speaks volumes of your lack of understanding of asymmetrical warfare . . . and of what I said. Again, QUIT seeing asymmetrical warfare the same way as you’d see a symmetrical war. Asymmetrical warfare has multiple dimensions. The way you wage asymmetrical warfare against one nation won’t necessarily be the same asymmetrical warfare tactic on another nation. What we’re doing in Iraq is a part of asymmetrical warfare, but doesn’t define it. We’re applying asymmetrical warfare against some of the nations that you mentioned on you list. Read the link that I provide on this thread to get a better understanding of what asymmetrical warfare is. It scratches the surface of what asymmetrical warfare entails, isn’t all inclusive, and doesn’t confirm to your black and white version of what constitutes a threat and what doesn’t. Do THAT before you dismiss my “doctrine”, which is very applicable to what’s going on today, and which is being applied against our enemies in the war on terrorism. And definitely read that book before running off with your assumptions of what I meant.
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