National Journal Blog - 16 July, 2011

 
I cross posted the Iraq piece on the "National Journal"  Security Experts blog.  Go there to see the other people's responses.  pl

http://security.nationaljournal.com/2011/07/should-the-us-keep-troops-in-i.php#2029982

Comments

[J]

Colonel,

If Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. wants U.S. to stay in Iraq so badly, then let him go over there and walk point. I wouldn't give him a week.

The NEOCONS, chickhawks-who've-never-worn-a-uniform, wannabe-armchair-generals-with-beers-in-their-hands, need to get off their duffs and down to the nearest U.S. Military Recruiting Office and join up, so we can let them fight their wars while everybody else goes home to their families!

I'm not sure I quite underswtand Wayne White's reasoning in his 'Don't be too frightened to leave'..... I don't understand where he's coming from. Wayne appears to be looking it from a bookkeepers angle, not a boots-on-the-ground fellow who gets stuck eating dust and walking point, and having to live on MREs and being constipated 3/4s of the time because of it.

[J]

Colonel,

Never mind regarding my question about Wayne White's premise. I initially read it the wrong-way. I initially read it as he was saying that we needed to stay, but he agrees we need to not be afraid to leave. I think I need a nap, and rest my eyes from tooo much reading. My wife says I sometimes spend too much time reading, but old habits are hard to break.

We need to get the heck out of Dodge and come home and work on our own problems, not worry about others quite so much.

Nap time.

[David]

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