Air Support to Ground Troops Re: Arguments for ground war

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>>Greg:
>>
>>  >Raising the need for a ground war is not really all that different
>>  >from a the political demand made during the Second World War in
>>  >Europe ("Second Front NOW!"). No general's plan, but an
>>  >achnowledgement that the USSR was being diced up and the Western
>>  >Allaince needed to give some tangible aid.
>>
>>For your analogy to work, you should be advocating opening the
>>"second front" on the USA, not on Afghanistan.
>>--
>>Yoshie
>
>Got it in one - that's exactly what I have been doing  ;  )
>
>Greg Schofield
>Perth Australia

Adding more U.S. ground troops to the existing ones in Afghanistan is 
simply an expansion of the first front.  For the second front on the 
USA to open a la WWII, there would have to be a civil war on the home 
front, a ground war in the Western Hemisphere, or some large-scale 
engagement elsewhere -- an unlikely prospect for the time being.
-- 
Yoshie

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