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Progress? Yes.
No.
Al Q has it's back broken in Iraq. ZERO Al Q control in Baghdad!!
No.
Al Q has it's back broken in Iraq. ZERO Al Q control in Baghdad!!
Minor topic drift, but that wasn't the post I was referring to. Kinda impossible, considering my post predated the post you're referring to by over an hour.The ability to superimpose new words into an old statement is hardly profound or enlightening. A bit surprised at how much GoSlash was impressed.
"The threat posed by terrorism is not new, not all that dire, and does not warrant the goofy lengths we've gone to.
The "war on terror" (such as it is) is a national security matter and worth winning. "
should be a war fought by spec ops and spec ops only, b/c you can't wage traditional war with terrorists, you just can't win.
Maybe be able to see the reasons it has been, and has the ability to continue to be a lasting, Military free, AlQ free, and civil war free solution.
IF it works.......it IS working. And to continue with the slogans your using, we won the war and are now winning the peace. The reason you don't yet hear the administration bring the progress to the fore is for a future post but has been touched on a bit already.
People are still living in the stone ages (literally there is no infrastructure in most areas), people are still killing each other and Americans/allies
No. Try reading it again. The argument has been made that if we leave now Iraq would descend into a civil war. Not a poor extrapolation if the situation is left with a lack of adequate IRAQI promise keepers. As of now that has not been fully accomplished hence our continued presence.Didn't you just say that there is no civil war because our military is killing anyone who tries to fight one? What happens if we leave?
It's NOT working. I mean... things may be slowly stabilizing (which is good I guess) but when it's all said and done the stable state isn't worth the price of admission.
So apparently we have completed the mission there as they are now where they were pre-invasion except without OBL and the Taliban! (a note of humor and sarcasm there)
So does that mean we have won the war?
If not, what would be criteria we have to meet to win the war?
How do we tell when its over?