HOW LONG?
As I was riding into work I was rolling around some thoughts on how long can we continue to sustain this war at our current level of effort. By this I mean do we continue the Army, Corps, Division, and Bde fight, or do we need to re-think our methodology for the long haul? Regardless of who is elected this fall, this war (I'm talking the war on terror, not just Iraq) will continue well beyond the end of their Presidency. I'm not sure we can keep up the tempo for that long as far a the financial and human resources. Also, do we really need to? Maybe another possibility is to look at the model we used in Afghanistan. If you haven't read the book "The Hunt for Bin Laden" by Robin Moore. I'm proposing that we need to look at a possible scenario where we rely more on the Special Operations Command and the CIA to fight the war on terrorism. They did it in Afghanistan and with some modifications for a given situation they could do it again. I'm not sure we shouldn't have looked harder at that option for Iraq. Maybe supporting to Kurds and telling the Turks to take a hike would have been better.
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