12th Doctor
supersoulty
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« on: June 01, 2008, 09:39:14 PM » |
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It depends.
The biggest mistake we made in Iraq was not destroying the Republican Guard when we had the chance. Avoiding the fight might have cost us a fewer casualties back in 2003, but we payed for it with how ever many deaths later on, and the missed opportunity at as much as a year and a half of stability we could have had to prepare for the arrival of Islamic extremists.
Obviously, the Pentagon forgot something that we learned long ago... wars are won by destroying the enemies forces, not by capturing symbolic targets. The rush to Baghdad might have looked better on TV, but it was horrible, from a strategic perspective.
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