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Originally Posted by lookout123
from the secret files of tw.
if the US gets off its ass and decides that a war is just and necessary and can get the schmucks in DC to unite behind it - there is nothing that can stop the US military when it is not tethered by the leash of public opinion. let's face it - that is what has stood in the way of US military success since Korea - the polls. public opinion and political gamesmanship. if the gov't were to actually realize there was a REAL threat and they pulled it together, the US military has the ability to devastate all comers.
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I guess this silly little fact called Chinese has no place in your memory of Korea. And you are going to tell us that the public is the reason we lost in Vietnam? You did first learn basic geo-military-political history?
Tell me how many schmucks in DC stopped the US military from liberating Kuwait. In fact much of the resistance to that liberation was, instead, from the military itself - because those schmucks who were itching for war refused (out of misunderstanding) to do their job - provide a workable strategic objective. To blame the public for a military loss is to not have learned basic history - or to spend too much time with Rush Limbaugh half truths.
When a nation does not have public support for its war, then the war is wrong. So and again we return to a fundamentally simple concept - the smoking gun. Right wing extremists - enemies of the military - would advocate that the public is an impediment to the military. "Soldiers dealing with the trauma of killing " in the Current Events forum touches upon what happens when the military goes to war without public support. It is the little people who then and again suffer because the military is wrong. Too many still refuse to learn the lessons of Vietnam. Those are an enemy of the military.
And yes, the president did know (or at least was informed of by his PDB) that hijackings and attack by Al Qaeda were imminent. The 9/11 Commission says so. Furthermore, this president and his people did everything possible to cover up that fact. When Condi Rice read the title of that PDB, then the entire hearing room gasp. That is what the president want you to not know - that he was informed of the attack we now call 9/11. It is bluntly obvious to anyone with reading skills. The president was warned of the attack. Warned bluntly from numerous quarters. He and his principles instead quashed all attempts to uncover or subvert that attack. These are historical facts even provided by the 9/11 Commission report.
Nuclear weapons are a far more effective impediment than bio weapons. Basic military knowledge (rather than just hype opinions from Fox News) makes that obvious. Bio weaspons are trivial localized devices that are much too overhyped by naive news reporters. To even suspect that bio weapons can defer an attack is to be naive. Nuclear weapons can take out entire divisions and naval task forces including the aircraft carrier. The latter causes fear in generals, admirals, and presidents. Bio attacks only get the press upset and create cannon fodder. Bio weapons do not threaten top leadership and capital weapons. Bio weapons are described by the leadership as "militarily insignificant". No better weapon than nuclear to deter an invasion. Bio weapons will not deter an invasion. Simple background in military tactics make that obvious.
Iran must build nuclear weapons because George Jr has all but declared his intentions to attack Iran. Iran is next as soon as George Jr and his people can invent an excuse.