Iraq Strategy To Be Examined

Is this the beginning of Somalia round two? Are we going to leave those who count on us high and dry?

The Pentagon is conducting a major review of the military's Iraq strategy to
determine "what's going wrong and should be changed"

Ol' BC is of the belief that in a time of war, there should be a perpetual study. That seems to me like a key part of running a war. If one is getting his ass handed to him, he may want to try something different. If you get them on the run, you may want to turn up the heat. Just being semi-logical may take this country a long way towards peace.

Asked by one interviewer whether the United States is winning the war in Iraq,
Pace replied: "You have to define 'winning.' I don't mean to be glib about
that.
"Winning, to me, is simply having each of the nations that we're trying
to help have a secure environment inside of which their government and people
can function," he said, in remarks that seemed to depart significantly from the
administration's more ambitious stated goal of building a thriving democracy in
Iraq.

I guess that's one way of saying we don't have the backbone to see this through. Osama's recruiting just improved. "America is a paper tiger. They don't have the stomach for war." Osama is looking more and more like he's got it figured out. That is what he said after we pissed backwards in Somalia. What will he say after this fiasco?

Ol' BC can assure you of one thing. There are no sanitary wars. People die. Innocent people die. End it quickly and deaths are fewer. There may be more per day, but fewer. The Iraqis can police a vast majority of the country with minimal support. Maybe we should flood Baghdad with troops and turn up the heat. If all else fails...hmmmm...parking lot?

Just a thought.