While I believe some of your outrage is justified, you seen to be partisan in your application of it. Why is it when a democrat is in the whilte house you start decrying the “hardships” Soldiers/Marines endure. Where was your screaming all caps rant against long deployments, lack of body armor, etc under the last admin??

“WE NOW HAVE AN ADMIN…” bullcrap sucks all your credibility away. The last admin were a bunch of morons who couldn’t tie their shoes without screwing the country and Soldiers, and did so while wrapped in the flag. I can only conclude you bought their bumper sticker slogans and “support the troops” speaches while sending our brothers and sissters back again, and again, without the equipment, leadership, and strategy needed.….….I suggest you give that a thought.

If you want to know my real name, simply input my moniker into the Military.com data base search and you will find it.

I also have reasons for privacy, however I don’t mind taking some personal risk. Their isn’t anyone who comments here that can’t be tracked down, if need be, so commenting on people’s moniker is pointless.

Part of the nature of national defense is preparing for the unexpected. Yeah the chance we go to war with China tomorrow or slim, but what if 20 years down the road key natural resources are dwindling enough to lead to confrontation?

Counterinsurgency isn’t a good Strategy for very large populations and/or for very many Enemy nations such as those which enable the Rebels in Afghanistan and Iraq. It is especially a bad Strategy because we have rather low population and low money. Air and Naval Bombardment combined with Special Forces type Operations is way better. Anything that moves in several nations or on the borders of several nations is knocked out. If the Enemy takes over a city, then the city itself is knocked out by our Air/Naval bombardment with Special Forces type Operations.

Osher Doctorow

Secretary of Defense Gates, by the way, needs to somehow be discussed here. He is a holdover from the G. W. Bush Administration, and he promoted Air Force Chief of Staff General Schwartz to his present position after sending him for training to the billionaire-government Frankenstein alliance, the “Council on Foreign Relations,” which basically brainwashes Military leaders to kowtow to the Civilian line of Civilian Diplomacy and Civilian Espionage. Of course, Gates was CIA all the way before getting appointed. And how did he get appointed? The Carter-Clinton-Obama billionaires and even before that including the Rockefellers have several organizations include the Council on Foreign Relations and Trilateral Commission which have recommended Secretaries of Defense and State since Truman’s time. Not one President since then has refused to nominate their recommendation, not even Reagan!

Osher Doctorow

Again sad to say but personal attacks and meaningless unsupported generalizations is all the can be brought to this discussion by that peculiar institution of 21st. Century Conservatives.

My ROE by the editors clearly let me comment on any arguments or non arguments that might be posted.

I do find it amusing that the 21st. Century Conservative are turning on one of their own, the WSJ. When you are desperate you throw the baby out the window with the bath water.

ALLONS,
Byron Skinner

It’s relatively clear you aren’t bound by any “dodbuzz ROE” Byron, and you are in no position to be calling out others on the quality of their posts when you come into every topic, bash conservatives who give a damn about funding the military, and refuse to respond to those who call out your errors.

Clearly it is the “budget cut and slash” crowd who doesn’t want a serious discussion on the matter.

Military officials also realize those who simply combat us on ideological grounds, and know that those people aren’t worth attempting to convert to our way of life, and must be killed.

I don’t mean to be rude, but you’re not bringing anything new to the table with your concept of ‘kamikaze types’ and ‘non kamikaze types’…you are however, on thin ice when you classify a whole enemy force as either, paranoid, paranoid schizoids, or depressive. Ignorance is dangerous.

In todays WSJ’s editorial section you will find editorial praise for the use of UAV’s and the Army’s transformation.

Since I’m restricted by my ROE on the buzz from commenting on the obvious, I will have to leave it at that. I think that most who read the buzz can judge for themselves the quality of posting going on here.

Anything beyond bulling and meaningless trivial chatter is all most have to bring to the debate. Maybe that why most chose not to use their full names in posting.

Serious arguments for or against an issue is not what that peculiar institution of 21st. Century American Conservatism and the think tanks they support want.

ALLONS,
Byron Skinner

Culture is something that is ingrained into each and all of us, and is very hard to change. As Americans we are all raised and immersed in the beliefs of freedom, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Naturally anyone that tries to convince us otherwise would be hard-pressed to do so, and we as Americans would be very willing to stake our lives in preserving our beliefs.

Osher Doctorow

Appearances to troops on the ground can be deceiving and often are. High level Officers have to step back and use their minds, not mainly their emotions. There is no persuasion of kamikaze types, not even if you call it COIN.

Osher Doctorow