Since liberals are so great at running the military, why is it that they never discuss that one needs to...?

Question

change tactics in a war frequently?

Specifically,

1. We went into Iraq to enforce the cease fire agreement after the Gulf War. That was the main reason that liberals forget to talk about because it does not politically suit them.

2. We have also had to adjust what we do because the enemy has new tactics all the time.

3. We have had to send in more troops to resecure areas in the Bagdad area because the enemy took them over again.

The enemy must change their tactics because if they do the same thing over and over again, we will know their game. You never see a football team run the same plays and you do not see the terrorists do the same.

The stay the course comment goes to my question. The comment was made by the President that we were not going to waiver in our pursuit of the enemy. As usual, liberals twist that comment.

Answer 1

How insightful....guess that's why we keep driving down the same roads day after day and keep getting IED'd because we keep doing the same thing.

How is it our enemy needs to change his strategy when we make it so convenient for him??

Here's the juice, liberal or conservative...stop playing games and start killing people...that means you completely devastate Sadr City....I mean levelled people. If we are not willing to do that then we really aren't fighting a war...but are just screwing around and getting a lot of Americans hurt.

I'm sick of all this war talk and no real war going on. Get R Done or git out.

Answer 2

Specifically -

1. We did not go into Iraq to enforce the cease fire agreement, and Iraq did not violate the cease fire agreement. We claimed Iraq was an imminent threat to our own security. The cease fire was enforced, as agreed in the cease fire, by (a) the "no fly zone" and (b) continued economic sanctions, which all did a fine job of keeping Iraq impotent and helpless.

2. "Stay the course" is adjusting how, exactly?

3. We've done "surges" before, and it's only resulted in increased violence and attacks against US troops.

The Green Bay Packers won more championships in a shorter period of time than anyone else by running the same plays over and over again. Vince Lombardi was all about execution, not surprise. They named the championship trophy after him. Bad analogy by you.

The liberals are looking at things realistically. We're an occupying force, we're a target and we're an irritant to the people there. We blew our chance to nip all this stuff in the bud by not having enough troops to secure things in the first place, and by having no plan or strategy going in.

Our "adjustments" are always in reaction. In a word, we're changing just to keep our heads above water. We make no progress this way. The insurgents are Iraqis, they have nowhere else to go, and they will always be there. We don't live there, and we will eventually leave, and the Iraqis will be there, still. Looking at that reality, the liberals realize that this isn't a military problem, it's a political, economic and military one. By just focusing on the military, we only insure that we make more enemies and make no progress towards doing anything that will make the "enemies" want to put down their weapons and rebuild the nation.

Terrorists amount for about 5% of the violence in Iraq. There never was any terrorist presence there until we created a lawless playground for them to take root and lots of Americans to have target practice with. Quit pretending Iraq is about terrorism, and then maybe you'll have a clue about how to solve the problems there.

Answer 3

Change tactics frequently? Bush didn't change a thing for over three years. His approach was never effective at any point and he stubbornly stayed with it anyway.
Bush and Cheney, two war dodgers during Vietnam, are rank amateurs at running a war.
They never had enough troops.
They never had enough necessary equipment.
They never secured any international support.
They have never won the locals.
They never tried to understand the culture.

The rest of your posting is nonsense. A cease fire enforcement? Bush used a State Of The Union address to justify pre-emptive invasion, an act condemned by 80% of the civilized world.
The enemy does not have the resources to make many adjustments at all. The enemy isn't even politically united. They just agree to hate invading Americans together.
The troop surge is a joke, tactically and otherwise. It will help for a month, tops.
This isn't football, my man. It's war. And the underfunded enemy will throw pots and pans for three months if that is all they have.
The war has been an ignorant disaster from Day One because of the Vietnam dodgers running it. Get a clue.

Answer 4

Well from the preceding answers it looks like they bought into what they want to believe. Most cite the same reasoning for entering the war because acknowledging the correct reason would be an admission that the previous administration did nothing.

They probably have no idea or concept of tactics and strategy.

Do they know what an OODA loop is?

And if I am running the same few plays (not just one, need to get their football history correct too) and they opposing force does not adapt to defend it, your damn right I'm going to keep at it.

Answer 5

Libbers hate any discipline, honor, code and that's what the military are all about.

They hate the Military because most are locked into a time warp at Woodstock.

You saw what happened to the militaty under the Clintons, didn't you?

And all your socialist tell me what makes this war "illegal"? What is the course for a "legal" war? But before you answer that, have your ever read UN Resolution 1441? Or any of the other redundunt 13 others? Please do tell me what it sez?

Answer 6

Liberals are anti-war and they do not want to join the fray in Iraq although they know the tactics to win the war thereat.

Answer 7

A) They want us to loose
B) They never have a plan
C) They seek to dismantle our military ..not enhance it
D)They want us to loose
E)They are engaged in a war on the War on Terror
F) They want us to loose

Answer 8

Thanks for the compliment, although liberals haven't had the chance to run the military lately. If you care to check it, bush's top military leaders are leaving like rats off a sinking ship. The people in charge (bush, cheney to name a few) have relatively NO military experience, unless you can count ducking their military obligations.

Answer 9

Isn't our Commander-in-Chief a Republican as well as a number of higher up people in the DOD.

There were a number of reasons we went into Iraq. That doesn't mean it is right. We should also be in Darfur because there is genocide going on, especially if we are so concerned about meddeling in other countries affairs..

Answer 10

When the war is illegal in the first place what difference does it make?