"Stretched Thin"
Crooks and Liars is complaining that 12,000 National Guard members are planned to deploy to Iraq. They ask, "How far can we stretch the military before it breaks," and answer that they don't know, "but that point is fast approaching."
Here's a fun fact: Two thirds of the Guardsmen to be deployed to aid in General Petraeus' surge have not served in Iraq. Of the remaining one third, only small percentage have served two tours.
If this is stretched thin, with one tour for every two to three years, I just don't know how we pulled off previous wars with deployments lasting two to five years without the technological advances we have today.
posted by Rich Vos at 5:14 PM
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Rich, so good to hear your home… There is nothing like the message Congress gave Gen. Petraeus. Our Congress want the "three hundred Spartans" to fight, not cutting the innocent and not using any money for food, supplies, etc. Not even the ancient Greeks could pull that off.
The only way to realize success in a mess is strength, overwhelming determination and POLITICAL Will to maintain a course. Aimless people get no where. Goals and objectives need to be set by those on all sides.
There is a business axiom that states "in confusion fortunes are made." Profiteering (Political, social and economical) are all stuck together in the same pot.
Wake up America; you have been sleeping too long at Aunt Hillary's Playhouse!
Roger Giblin USAR Retired
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