The outline for a survival plan

[spindrifter]

Joe Biden is throwing down the gauntlet with actual recommendations for how to set up the framework for a viable situation as troops withdraw. Who in the * administration is working on a plan? As we all know, the layers of mess that we have created are not simply the result of military action. They are the detritus of lack of understanding of a complex sociopolitical environment--one that we were not meant to f*ck with.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/25/AR2005112500864.html

[teryang]

1. It's not lack of understanding - it's arrogance

When someone believes jingo's like "we're the worlds only super power" and "no one can challenge the US military" they are not interested in sociopolitical environments. Here's another "while critics debate and analyze what we do, they are left behind while we make history."

Embedded trainers, civil affairs officers, and Special Forces. Yeah, right, that will change everything.

Humpty Dumpty cannot be put back together again. Get over it.