The sacrifices we make... or not
Jan. 9th, 2007 11:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumFred Kagan, the much touted "expert" claiming we can win the War on Terror, if only some 30,000 troops are added to the mix, for not less than months, is younger than I am.
He thinks this is the defining struggle of the age. It is at least as perilous to the state of things as WW2.
Is he enlisting? No. But he does hope other people will heed his call, that the President will make an impassioned plea for more people to enlist, and that such exhortations will lead to the needed troops enlisting.
For his part, he is more than willing to stay home (like Jonah Goldberg, who at least responded to people who asked him why he wasn't signing up) and make lots of money convincing people to send more troops to Bagdad and al Anbar.
It's all summed up at This Modern World
He thinks this is the defining struggle of the age. It is at least as perilous to the state of things as WW2.
Is he enlisting? No. But he does hope other people will heed his call, that the President will make an impassioned plea for more people to enlist, and that such exhortations will lead to the needed troops enlisting.
For his part, he is more than willing to stay home (like Jonah Goldberg, who at least responded to people who asked him why he wasn't signing up) and make lots of money convincing people to send more troops to Bagdad and al Anbar.
It's all summed up at This Modern World
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Date: 2007-01-10 12:28 am (UTC)If Sadr decides he has two choices, fight the Americans, or lose his chance to be a player/in charge, he'll fight.
If he fights, Katie bar the door, because supply lines, and the numbers/fish in water nature of the Madhi army are such that engagements are going to be hard on the U.S., because it will be Viet-nam, in that they get to choose the moment of attack, but they can engage in close quarters, and with superior numbers.
Blackhawk down, in half a dozen places at once.
TK