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2008-09-09 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Fred 2008-09-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Um, excuse me, wasn't Biden one of the dorks who wanted to cut and run on the Iraqis?

Posted by Angavigum Peacock2608 2008-09-09 07:29|| 2008-09-09 07:29|| Front Page Top

#2 No AP he was in the "cut-up and run" camp instead.

Posted by Glusose Hitler5394 2008-09-09 08:11|| 2008-09-09 08:11|| Front Page Top

#3 well he sure can't take credit for the strategy that worked but...he was calling for increased troop levels as far back as 2005...if we went large in 2003 this would of been such a yesterday issue

Posted by dan 2008-09-09 10:41|| 2008-09-09 10:41|| Front Page Top

#4 if we went large in 2003 this would of been such a yesterday issue

I don't necessarily think that's true, Dan. For that to be a tenable argument we'd have to believe that more troops would have prevented the insurgency in the first place, or would have tamped it down quickly before it got a toehold. But I think the Iraq insurgency's ideological energy would have been there regardless of how many troops we had on the ground in 03 and beyond, and, irrespective of which insurgency you look at throughout history, that ideological energy requires a certain amount of time to dissipate no matter what type of tactics you use against it.

What Iâve continued to hear from the counterinsurgency experts is that it normally takes about 10 years to successfully quell an insurgency. If thatâs the case, then could it be that it would have only meant more US casualties had we âwent largeâ? Just sayin...

Posted by gb506 2008-09-09 12:46|| 2008-09-09 12:46|| Front Page Top

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