Quote Originally Posted by Bob's World View Post
For me the #1 planning criteria has to be absolute and uncompromising respect for the host nation's sovereignty and legitimacy. Not as we legally define it. Not as we perceive it. But as the host nation legally defines it and as their diverse populaces perceive it.
That has to start at the policy level, it must be said. If our policymakers, in their distinctly finite wisdom, decide that it is necessary for us to remove a government and install a new one, or to remodel a nation in an image that will allow us to describe ourselves to ourselves as a benevolent belligerent, that planning criterion goes out the window. These goals are fundamentally incompatible with host nation sovereignty.