[lbo-talk] TLF's Iraq cure: hair of dog that bit you

[Carl Remick]

>From: "Jim Devine" <jdevine03 at gmail.com>
>
>it's true that massive infusions of US troops into Iraq might solve
>the problem (flooding the country with law and order).

That train has left the station.  The US military -- not the Wehrmacht but 
an amazing simulation -- is now indelibly stamped in Iraqi minds as part of 
the problem, not the solution.


>But the US not
>only lacks the troops, but its stated goals in the war are bogus (and
>its real goals indefensible) while its strategy and tactics used so
>far have simply increased the need for troops...

The whole exercise has been insane from the get-go, as misconceived as 
trying to perform neurosurgery with a shotgun blast.

Carl