Because these guys:
Went here:
And studied this:
and this:
Instead of this:
And these guys want a combat command:
So they can earn this:
So we send:
and
To fight:
Here:
Sending in conventional forces to fight a guerrilla war was the same mistake the US military made in Vietnam. Officers know the quickest way to advance ranks in the military is to get a combat command they can put on their resume so no matter how little sense it made, it was inevitable that we would be sending in ground forces instead of what we should've done. This was to allow the Afghanis to fight as our proxies while we sent SF teams up into the mountains to hunt down Al-Quaeda. When we inevitably pull out of Afghanistan in defeat, all blame should rest at the feet of the Pentagon.
Went here:
And studied this:
and this:
Instead of this:
And these guys want a combat command:
So they can earn this:
So we send:
and
To fight:
Here:
Sending in conventional forces to fight a guerrilla war was the same mistake the US military made in Vietnam. Officers know the quickest way to advance ranks in the military is to get a combat command they can put on their resume so no matter how little sense it made, it was inevitable that we would be sending in ground forces instead of what we should've done. This was to allow the Afghanis to fight as our proxies while we sent SF teams up into the mountains to hunt down Al-Quaeda. When we inevitably pull out of Afghanistan in defeat, all blame should rest at the feet of the Pentagon.
Last edited by JohnG@lt (2010-08-15 21:29:23)
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
