Quote Originally Posted by Stu-6 View Post
While completely ignorant on the subject of counter-insurgency, and pretty much everything else, Diana West almost stumbled upon a gem in that steaming pile: what if they just don’t want us or what we are selling? Now Ms West doesn’t come right out and say that or have any idea of what to do about that (except some idiotic notion of being less PC) but we maybe there. Frankly I think it probably has less to do with being “infidels” and more to do with good old fashion you don’t belong here, but it doesn’t matter why. The fact of the matter is they may just not want us there . . . and then what?
Slap,

That in a nutshell is why we did not do this in 1991.

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Tom