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Posted by SLRT on Sun Mar 1 17:17:03 2015, in response to Re: Our Chickenhawk Country, posted by italianstallion on Sun Mar 1 16:59:44 2015. The one particular place where I think we diverge is this.The first consideration is not whether "they" "need" us; it whether WE need to be there. Since the end of WWII we've felt we've had to pretend we're only helping our good buddies [fill in the country or group] achieve their aims. Wars are not fought to achieve other people's aims, unless meeting their aims meets ours. Secondly, if we have to overrun a country, we have to be ready to occupy it. If we're just going to hand it over to whoever, we should ask why. Like Bush the 1st handed Kuwait back to the Sheiks (who promptly deported the non-citizen Palestinians). Like Obama announced that we would be out of Iraq and Afghanistan on dates certain. And if we do occupy a country, we have to be ready to administer it, not hand that over to local puppets (or worse, non-puppets). The Army has Civil Administration Units for that. Widely used after WWII. Still had them during Nam; probably still now. The CO became the Mayor, the XO the head of the City Council, the army clerks became municipal clerks, and so on. |
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