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2007-05-17 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by ryuge 2007-05-17 09:34|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Sadly Peters is right. Anyway, "war czar" is the President's job and he needs to crack the whip over the executive branch (which includes the DoD).

Posted by Spot">Spot 2007-05-17 09:53|| 2007-05-17 09:53|| Front Page Top

#2 As has been said many, many times, the "buck stops at the President."

Posted by JohnQC 2007-05-17 12:08|| 2007-05-17 12:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Amer has, or should have, more than enuff "War Czar(s)" already - its called CENTCOM(S), the USDOD, + the NATIONAL COMMAND AUTHORITY. Dubya's only "PLAN B" is to just seal off the entire nations and vital areas of IRAQ-AFGHANISTAN while still using US-Allied mil assets to surround and intimidate Moud - a major or primary prob wid this is that the fighting power of Radical Islam is left mostly intact "as is" andor "where is" [where US milfors are NOT NOR WILL BE THANX TO NPE POLITIX]], wid high potential for "more than now". BASIC MISSION OF "WAR CZAR" > HOLD THE LINE IN ME UNTIL MOUD = RADICAL IRAN IMPLODES OR DOES SOMETHING MIL STUPID.

* "Big missions ... zero clout ... little more than nags ... ilusion that a problem was taken seriously" > IOW, A PCorrect DIVERSION-PATSY, at best a POWERLESS FIGUREHEAD THAT EVERYONE WANTS TO CONTROL=DENY BUT NO ONE WANTS TO SEE SUCCEED.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-05-17 22:40|| 2007-05-17 22:40|| Front Page Top

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