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Originally posted by Spanky
Mr. Spanky? As I said before undeserved respect.
I have always said is OK to critisize the war strategy, even the decision to go to war, but to say we don't have a chance is undermining our troops. I think it is clear that Saddam was evil, and that the insurgents are evil and want to do evil things. As long as people acknowledge that, but say this may not be in our strategic interest, we are fighting the war the wrong way, or we should get out now even though it will leave a problem fine. But to say that we are losing, or that we can never win undermines confidence. If those statement were true it would be another thing, but no one could possibly know whether or not we can really win, so to say that we cannot undermines moral and emboldens our enemies.
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I suspect most of the men and women in the field have a much better idea of how the war is going that any civilian on Capital Hill. They don't need to be fed rosy scenarios - they won't believe them anyways.
And, I suspect not all the insurgents are "evil and want to do evil things." Some of the Iraqis have deep seated animosities between them, and the fact that the Kurds and Shi'ites are ascendant is going to result in bloodshed with the Sunnis. We need to be careful not to make ourselves an ally in a war on the Sunnis, and not to turn ethnic discord into widespread Sunni alliance with al Quaida.
