I just read McCrystal’s speech as posted by LEX and in it he says that if you have 10 Taliban in an area and kill 2, it doesn’t leave 8 still there – He surmizes 6 say ” Time to get outta Dodge..” (in Pashto of course) and they go find other things to do…

So let’s get busy with finding the camps/caves/rat-holes and taking out the Trash!

While we need both types of battle, we should be maximizing the use of finding the places where they are training/ resupplying in the wilds of Waziristan and hitting those caves/camps with everything we got.

Using the survellilance drones to make sure we are not hitting the WRONG places and making sure that we are hitting the RIGHT places. NO bombing wedding accidentally, just hitting the bad guys as they are getting trained up in the SH-Twilds…

The area along the PAK/AFGHAN border is too rugged to control with troops on the ground and by now, we should be able to use our superior tactical advantage to smoke them out of the holes….Find em and send them to Allah…

I thought the whole issue with the Kamdesh firebase that was attacked and almost overrun would have made the perfect test for the right application of this type of battle. After we left this base and made it unusable, the Taliban announced to the world that they had taken over the base and were flying thier flag over the base.

Really?? Well someone at CENTCOM should have told them ” Stay right there..” as a C-130 flew overhead and dropped a Daisycutter on the spot as we knew exctly where they were and what they were doing. As the side of the mountain sheered off from the blast, we could have taped it and played the film at a news conference over & over again….Then we would conclude the news conference by quoting John McCain who stated, ” We will chase you to the gates of Hell..” as this will be the only way the Taliban Cockroaches stop what they are doing and run for their miserable lives…

I’m sorry to sound harsh but these extremists will only stop when we make them….It is about time we use our sueprior advantage to it’s optimum ability and make them stop.

I lost a buddy at WTC and another on the USS Cole, along with many shipmates in Fallujah….we have suffered enough loss of our best, it is time we take out their worst.

Wecome to Byzantium, where the Emperor is in charge of everything his eyes can see, as long as he remains in sight.

Then initiative is exercised to achieve what the Emp says he wants, once asssured he isn’t looking this way.

Which creates conflict with what he really wants, when that isn’t what he says he wants.

Unless fiat accompli. Then what he said he wanted always was what he really wanted. Honest.

Another fine kettle of fish, Ollie, another fine kettle of fish….