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I agree with MAJ England’s assesment of what needs to be done. We need to make an all out push to rid Iraq of the insurgents and the Al Sadrs. Have a sit down with all of the leaders of the different factions and let them know that they are either part of the solution or a part of the problem and the consequences of remaining a problem.
Don’t let the public and the politicians determine the course of events in Iraq.

ic1redeye on November 17, 2006 at 12:08 PM

Amen – there’s a phrase for this –

Total War!

and it must be fought to win, which is done by destroying the enemy.

Show the public what total war looks like and remind them that this is our fate if we do not fight decisively.

Our enemies will not worry about political correctness -

Neither should we!

I can assure you that such places DO NOT work eight hour days. Most work three overlapping 10-hour shifts, five or six days a week.

I assumed Hammes was referring to depots in Iraq. It wouldn’t make sense to ship equipment back to the states for repair.

You’ll be interested to know that Ny Post columnist Lt. Col Ralph Peters (Ret.) agrees with you.

The civilian and the military leadership needs to be willing to re-evaluate and chuck out what hasn’t worked, and to start looking at short term wins, not some nebulous “when they stand up” objective.

You would think that America, with Hollywood and all of the left coast wizards could come up with a PR campaign that would win the hearts and minds of anyone, anywhere.

The only problem, HBJ, is that Hollywood wants us to lose. It’s the same with all the other libs; they want to see the military pull out, tails between their legs, to justify their ridiculous opinions of our great nation.

We need John Wayne; we have Sean Penn. What else can I say…

Our society needs to define war. If we have to go to war it needs to be scorched earth not winning hearts and minds. Sounds extreme I know but we need to bulldoze every single structure, dynamite every single bridge, displace every single person. Then leave. Put out an ad at the U.N., free land, come and get it. If the bad guys want to take it back…let them…it will be a tent city for 200 years.

If it is war we need to do WAR….if it is not then stay home.

OK you can hammer me into the ground now people.

I got out 15 tears ago and that might render my opinion irrelevent, but I think we DO need to send in more troops … and put them on the Syrian and Iranian borders. There they can stem the flow if weapons and jihadis AND preposition themselves for a thrust inside those two nations whom we are already at war with. They are well aware of the fact that they are at war with us, I just wish that we, America, Canada, Australia and the entire Western World would wake the hell up and realize it before it’s too late.

Sure, there have been some engagements, such as the retaking of Faluga, which seems like pure Public Relations and not legitimate, for the city still seems to be under the control of the terrorists, or was several times after we were told that it was re-taken.

The job was not finished. The enemy was not properly defeated. They were left alive and able to regroup.

I have been hoping that somehow the US could reengage and press for three to six months minimum, and kill a few thousand more from this resistance-terrorist collaboration, enough till real control was established.

Now that Iraq has its own government and is not coming through and establishing control itself, and now that the US has relinquished control to that Iraqi government, so much so that they are telling the US what to do, and actually trashing the US on the world stage, it appears to be too late for the US to turn around and go full tilt, blow things up and kill people, till the resistance is destroyed.

For example, I’d love to see Muktada al Sadyr and his militia pushing up daisies.

I don’t like seeing our soldiers used as ducks at a shooting gallery.

Let them get out their and fight!

William

The politicians and lawyers and embedded leftist media apply THEIR idea of PC and cultural sensitivity to the missions of the military, rather than the military being able to adapt to the methods used by and effective against the culture with which they must deal.

Expecting our troops to do the job using the methods of dealing with sweet, well fed pet labradors when faced with a pack of rabid, starving hyenas makes the job nearly impossible even if Charlie Rangell started up the draft tomorrow and sent a MILLION troops in there.

Anyhow, the “drywall plan,” as AP so succinctly puts it, has a little more wishful thinking than I’d like. It’s major flaw, though, is mentioning a time table to our enemies right off the bat. Major offensive or no, if they know they only have to hold out for one year, they will melt into the woodwork and disappear, only to reappear in greater force as the last of our birds departs the airfield. Also, it works on the assumption that A) the Iraqi government has some kind of overall control over it’s forces (sorry folks, it doesn’t), B) talking to the UN is more than “sound and fury, signifying nothing” (sorry folks, it ain’t), and that C) State will grow a backbone with regards to dealing with the Arabs (sorry folks, past history indicates otherwise). It sounds like a decent idea, but it simply won’t work! Too much wishful thinking, not enough ground-up fixes, and that bloody timeline that refuses to go away. The only workable points are increasing boots on the ground and going after the murderous b*stards where they live.

Now, I don’t claim to be an expert and the above is simply one man’s opinion. But speaking from my (somewhat limited, admittedly) experience and observations, of the two plans referenced here, only one has any serious chance of success. We need to take the slow road and ensure some degree of self sufficiency before we can safely leave, and that requires the monetary, tactical, strategic, and cultural changes outlined in Maj Egland’s plan. It’s not perfect, by any means, but it contains too many battle tested elements to be lightly cast off (tethered blimps, pushing authority and operational responsibility down, encouraging improvisation/innovation, dropping the peacetime mentality etc.). I, for one, hope we do implement something like that. If that means I’m back in the sandbox a time or two more, it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make. I only hope the rest of the country feels the same…

I don’t know who Colonel Hammes is, but I live, work, and go to church near a major center of repair depot activities. I work for one contractor, have dozens of friends, former shipmates and acquaintances who work for various others, and I can assure you that such places DO NOT work eight hour days. Most work three overlapping 10-hour shifts, five or six days a week.

It’s so easy for someone to claim knowledge that they don’t actually possess, but that doesn’t make it so. (Agreed that could just as easily apply to me)

Do you people not realise that you are going to be the FIRST targets of these people? That you are the easiest targets, therefore, the first to be taken out (with Minimal Damage)?? Don’t you see that you’re setting yourself up to be THE target?? DUMBASSES!!! Do you think for a second, that these barbarians will stop and think: Oh, he was thinking about being all liberal and shit, so let’s go ahead and spare this one. HAH!!! You stupid, stupid ignorant, and uninformed assholes. I hope we’ve got better than this to show the REAL enemies.