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From: Eeyore on 16 Jan 2007 09:54 Ken Smith wrote: > unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: > >Ken Smith wrote > >> unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: > >>>Ken Smith wrote: > >> > >>>>So what do you expect from this 20K more troops? It isn't enough extra to > >>>>make a difference so it must be symbolic or political. Please explain how > >>>>they make anything better. > >>> > >>>I've said before, disarm the population, seal the border, and we > >>>can leave. > >> > >> Good plan, but with 20K more troops, there is no chance of doing so. With > >> a few 100K perhaps it could be done. > > > >20K can easily seal the borders in fairly short order. Then it > >becomes a combination of clearing the worse areas of weapons > >and attrition of weapons because no new ones are getting in. > > I very seriously doubt that it could be done with 20K troops. In any > case, your idea isn't going to be tried. Bush is telling them to paint on > bullseyes and stand on street corners. I thought they were going there to mop up the 'insurgency'. Ohh..... I see what you mean. ;~) So, they're not even there and already no-one really knows why ! Graham
From: Ken Smith on 16 Jan 2007 09:55 In article <e2bc0$45ace64f$49ecf70$27139(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: [....] >Leopard. Spots. QED To come down to that level: They were happy to sell you rugs. You attacked them so now they send you bombs. -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge
From: unsettled on 16 Jan 2007 10:00 Ken Smith wrote: > In article <e2bc0$45ace64f$49ecf70$27139(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, > unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: > [....] > >>Leopard. Spots. QED > > > > To come down to that level: They were happy to sell you rugs. You > attacked them so now they send you bombs. > > > So it was flying carpets that took down WTC?
From: Ken Smith on 16 Jan 2007 10:03 In article <2860f$45ace72e$49ecf70$27178(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: [....] >A contractor with 20K employees sealing a border could get it >done pretty quickly. I doubt it. They other guys will be busily unsealing it the whole time. > Giving a relative 50% efficiency factor >for military troops doing the same work still provides us with >a 10,000 employee contractor sealing the border. That, my friend, >is a HUGE contractor by anyone's standards, and can get a lot >of work done post haste. There is more than merely "a lot" of border to block. >Besides, it isn't all about fences, it is more about land mines. They have sheep. The land mines will be cleared in short order. >> In any >> case, your idea isn't going to be tried. Bush is telling them to paint on >> bullseyes and stand on street corners. > >Mores the pity. Yes. Even though I disagree that your suggestion would work, at least you are suggesting something new that if if was given enough troops may actually work. As it is Bush is only making matters worse while trying to make sure that it is the next president that gets the blame. -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge
From: Ken Smith on 16 Jan 2007 10:04
In article <355ac$45ace872$49ecf70$27200(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >Ken Smith wrote: > >> In article <e2bc0$45ace64f$49ecf70$27139(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, >> unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >> [....] >> >>>Leopard. Spots. QED >> >> >> >> To come down to that level: They were happy to sell you rugs. You >> attacked them so now they send you bombs. >> >> >> >So it was flying carpets that took down WTC? It wasn't Iraqis in those planes. -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge |