Comments Posted By Cernig
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Hi Rick,
Thanks for trying hard not to politicise what should simply be a day of remembrance overmuch but instead just giving your own, honest, emotions and memories.
You earned some respect from me today.
Tomorrow, no doubt, I'll be calling you a political fool again...but that's tomorrow. For today, remembering is enough dontcha think?
Regards, Cernig
Comment Posted By Cernig On 11.09.2006 @ 13:55
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MIAMI — More U.S. troops and a new president could be needed to win international support for U.S. efforts in postwar Iraq, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said Sunday.
The Massachusetts senator said President Bush has created a "quandary" for the nation by failing to develop a broad coalition to fight the war, to secure Iraq and to let countries that didn't fight participate in rebuilding."It may well be that we need a new president, a breath of fresh air, to re-establish our credibility with the rest of the world" and bring other countries into Iraq, Kerry said on NBC's Meet the Press.
He also said that "if it requires more troops in order to create the stability that eliminates the chaos" discouraging the United Nations and other countries from helping, "that's what we have to do."
ENDQUOTE. USA Today, 4/18/2004.I never thought I would see the day Kerry and Rick Moran would agree on something.
Unfortunately, they are both wrong and the commenter above is correct.
"Large numbers of troops are of use in an insurgency primarily to maintain the borders of the insurgent country(another failure of our efforts). Massive troop deployment and engagement will only refuel and intensify the insurgency at this point. It is too late, with too many blunders already committed, to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people, so they may themselves extinguish the insurgency. There is no joy in saying there is nothing we can commit at this point that will lead to a different outcome."
More troops wouldn't have helped a bit unless the model for COIN ops was changed and now it is too late. Time to withdraw with as much grace as possible. Forget Iran, there's no capability left to do anything now, given what the inevitable backlash would be. Sad but true.
Regards, C
Comment Posted By Cernig On 21.08.2006 @ 13:43
