Key Assumptions:
While political progress, economic gains, and security are intertwined, political and economic progress are unlikely absent a basic level of security.
Effective national reconciliation may or may not take the form of a comprehensive package or deal; it could come about as the product of piecemeal efforts.
Major Strategic Shifts:
The Primary Mission Is Helping Iraqis Provide Security to the Population
•Help Iraqis provide greater levels of security in Baghdad in order to enable political and economic progress
•Help Iraqis create the security environment in which political deals needed to sustain security gains can be made
As stated in the, oh where did I put that link, oh wait. As stated in the bloody document you linked to.
I hate it when the smart ones play dumb, don't you?
PS, I know you dont listen to Rush often, but you may be amazed how often you independently come up with the same talking points :D
Current Events » in reply to re: goalpost shift.
dont just take my word for it.
The whole thread (55 posts)
- "The three trillion dollar war."
- The last paradigm shift: "The victory won't be worth the money."
- O come on. We've been giving you crud about the cost since...
- Paradigm shifts suck, don't they?
- You're stuck too.
- No, its about a lot more than the money, its about the cost...
- you didnt answer the question: 'was it worth it'? (n/t)
- Policial Progress was not a goalpost shift.
- re: there's not one of them that isn't almost identical to something that could have been written a year ago. Maybe two.
- You're stuck too.
- Who said anything about victory?
- Learn your history
- WW II .........Last Proper WAR
- Rope-a-dope
- re: Rope-a-dope
- Our tactical successes have yielded no strategic benefits.
- NEWSFLASH!!!NEWSFLASH!!!NEWSFLASH!!!
- Well, you certainly got the "nobody cares" right.
- I know who Cordesman is, as well I know what the CSIS is.
- re: I know who Cordesman is, as well I know what the CSIS is.
- MAYBE, when trying to determine a group' s bias, you should look at more than their own site and a wikipedia entry they wrote...
- time required to read gbaikie's worthless post: 10 seconds, search time to verify that csis Is a right wing think-tank: 1 minute 35 seconds, showing- yet again- that gbaikie is an unthinking politica…
- re: I know who Cordesman is, as well I know what the CSIS is.
- I know who Cordesman is, as well I know what the CSIS is.
- Well, you certainly got the "nobody cares" right.
- re: Rope-a-dope
- Rope-a-dope
- WW II .........Last Proper WAR
- The last paradigm shift: "The victory won't be worth the money."
