Success in Iraq? Just Not Good Enough!

Not worth it my ass.

Come on Podesta, you and slick willie ignored terrorism during the 90's while focusing on continual lip service from Monica. September 11th was the result. Did Bill think was Monica really that good?

Was THAT worth it?

Posted by gabrielpicasso at November 21, 2007 8:34 AM

Well said, Gerard. I would take issue with you on only one point, the matter of the Army's strategic reserve. Fact is, we don't have it any more.

Throughout almost the entire Cold War, including administrations of both parties, there was a pretty clearly-defined understanding of what the concept of strategic reserve meant. It meant that the the US must be able to fight a general war against the USSR in Europe while having in reserves enough forces to fight another, major war elsewhere. Mainly, this meant Korea, but during the 1960s it meant we still had to be able defeat the Soviets in Europe while fighting in Vietnam.

This concept was referred to as the "two war" force or sometimes called the "one-and-a-half war" concept. It was predicated on the notion that the US/NATO could prevail in Europe without commitment of all US forces. For sure, all the Reserves and the entire Guard would be mobilized, but not all deployed to Europe. They, and some regular divisions, would be retained as the strategic reserve for other conflicts, started by other commies like Kim who might be tempted to take advantage of a presumed American preoccupation with Europe.

But the two-war, or even 1-1/5 war concept is dead now because we do not have armed forces in numbers to sustain it. If Kim did decide to head south, we'd be in deep kimchi to fight that war with the force it would both deserve and require and still maintain necessary levels of troops in Iraq and A'stan.

Now, the severe drawdown of US armed services was done in the Clinton administration, so Podesta has that weight to carry in addition to what you've written. But Bush the elder started it, Clinton just continued it, though he cut the services much deeper than GHW Bush envisioned.

That was the status of forces that GW Bush inherited from Clinton and that's doubtless what Rummy meant when he said, "You go to war with the Army you've got." But Bush has had six years to get with the program to expand the military, especially the Army and Marines, and has only just now started to do it. And his expansion plan is not nearly enough.

My blogging colleague, Lt. Col. John Krenson, had a lot more to say about this here:

http://www.donaldsensing.com/?p=1104

Posted by Donald Sensing at November 21, 2007 10:01 AM

Thank you Sensing. Informative as always. I've noted this in the item.

Posted by vanderleun at November 21, 2007 10:25 AM

Podesta, to me, is proof positive of the soundness of evolutionary theory.

Evolutionary theory posits that every ecological niche rich in some resource will eventually be occupied by an organism that is nourished by that resource. As confirmation, we have the famous Deinococcus radiodurens bacillus, found only in the cores of nuclear reactors.

Podesta and his cronies feed on American defeat, despair, and self-loathing. Man being a productive species, they not only seek out lodes of these things; they do what they can to enlarge them.

The greenies argue that every species is precious -- that every extinction harms the world in some irreparable way. However, what impact the extinction of a particular species would have is always a matter of conjecture...sometimes even long after it's died off.

Concerning what impact the disappearance of the Defeatocrats would have, no consensus has yet formed. Research continues.

Posted by Francis W. Porretto at November 22, 2007 2:31 AM