Replies to post #114525 on Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[hap0206]

hi peg -- occasionally I write something from an assortment of thoughts stored somewhere in my mind

We can probably find a link to several generals lamenting that war plans do not survive the first few battles

That's why we pay them the big bucks -- adapt to conditions changing in the battlefield

And the attraction of terrorists to Iraq was from a post a few days back

[edit -- this was a post expressing that thought]
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I think the operative statements are the ones along line of "we'll fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here." Bush is in a tight spot and can't really say, "Listen, we're going to continue to allow the foreign fighters into Iraq. Yup, it makes bad headlines and nasty footage, but that's the way it's going to be for a while. We know how strong they are and they aren't strong enough to derail the effort. We're going to keep letting them come to Iraq to stir the pot so that our military can kill them. Don't worry, America, if they get too big or too strong, we'll snap the borders shut."