Well, I agree that Jane is something the democrats do not need.
What would happen if we did what she wanted? Suddenly and unilaterally simply bugged out?
Reports from cities like Fallujah give us a good indication when Marine brigades pulled back and tried to give operational authority to the Iraqi military. Within a week they were overrun, targetted by death squads and killed. Soon the city was back in the hands of insurgents and had to be retaken again.
If we pulled out all of a sudden, the millions we have invested in oil fields and all of it would fall into the hands of local warlords. The Syrians would pour regulars across the border to secure the western oil fields, and the Iranians would try and take Basra for themselves.
The Kurds would cordon off the north and the Sunnis and Shia would enter into a full sclae bloodbath and Baghdad would make Beruit look like a new shopping mall.
We'd have a hell of a time re-establishing ourselves there, and we'd get nothing for the lives we've sacrificed. F--- that.
We need to get out of urban areas and secure the resources. Take as much of the natural resources, keep it out of the Chinese hands. Keep it away from Putin and his designs on his oil companies to the east of Iran.
We don't need more troops for this mission, we need good CnC. We need a coordinated move back towards the Kuwaiti border, checkpoints setup and massive refrigeration unit based castles like camp Bremer get shut down. Too $$ to run.
We're moving battle groups towards the Gulf now. Air power is fine, but we need predator drones and arty to shell the crap out of little roaming groups of thugs with mortars in trucks. little birds with chain guns sweeping the streets as the tanks and heavy stuff (truck convoys) pull back out of Baghdad.
Let them war it out, we're taking what we came for. Starve them. Let the Turks run food to their Kurdish friends.
The Afghans are a lost people. Stick Karbala on a stake and leave. We don't give a **** about the Talis and their oppression of women. We just want the groups that organize terror runs to the west. Save the cash of trying to chase down Talis in the small towns, start taking profit from the opium trade to help pay for things.
We can't even get the Pakis to help us catch Osama in the hills. The only way we turn this thing around is to start making this operation run the black, instead of bleeding the US treasury dry. Tax KBR, tax Halliburton. Tax the now record profit of Exxon they put up this quarter, the most profit any company has ever taken in world history ever. Start putting that back into funding merc teams. Send death squads out to target local warlords.
It's time to quit wasting money sending Marines into urban areas and letting them get sniped and IED'd. Marines are no good for police actions. Baghdad is a pit - vacate it.
