Reduction of Troops
General Petraeus has testified that he’s recommending a drawdown of troops over the next year to 139,000, from the 169,000 we’re at now.
The primary motivation for this is that the Army and Marine Corps are in deep trouble and the Pentagon is having a very difficult time maintaining this deployment. By withdrawing 28,000 to 30,000 troops, the Pentagon will be able to provide longer periods of time at home, making it much easier on the troops and their families.
The Army has said they are undermanned, but Petraeus is now saying they’re not undermanned. Could the Bush regime be trying to provide some political cover to keep the Republicans in line on Capitol Hill?
It has been known from the beginning that the surge could not be sustained. Under the best of circumstances the Pentagon would still need to have a drawdown by March of next year. Petraeus announced the drawdown as though it was some kind of great marker of success, when in fact, it’s something that they had predicted was logistically necessary.
A couple months ago, Colin Powell said that there’s going to have to be a reduction in force by the end of next spring. Petraeus is merely declaring that as policy. It’s reality, not a marker of success.
It’s disturbing that the Bush regime has been able to spin the drawdown, as some kind of success. The public has already decided, in overwhelming numbers that Americans don’t care about those nebulous concepts described as success or winning. At this point they are irrelevant. They want our troops home safe and sound with their families.
Eisenhower warned: “I think that people want Peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it.”
The primary motivation for this is that the Army and Marine Corps are in deep trouble and the Pentagon is having a very difficult time maintaining this deployment. By withdrawing 28,000 to 30,000 troops, the Pentagon will be able to provide longer periods of time at home, making it much easier on the troops and their families.
The Army has said they are undermanned, but Petraeus is now saying they’re not undermanned. Could the Bush regime be trying to provide some political cover to keep the Republicans in line on Capitol Hill?
It has been known from the beginning that the surge could not be sustained. Under the best of circumstances the Pentagon would still need to have a drawdown by March of next year. Petraeus announced the drawdown as though it was some kind of great marker of success, when in fact, it’s something that they had predicted was logistically necessary.
A couple months ago, Colin Powell said that there’s going to have to be a reduction in force by the end of next spring. Petraeus is merely declaring that as policy. It’s reality, not a marker of success.
It’s disturbing that the Bush regime has been able to spin the drawdown, as some kind of success. The public has already decided, in overwhelming numbers that Americans don’t care about those nebulous concepts described as success or winning. At this point they are irrelevant. They want our troops home safe and sound with their families.
Eisenhower warned: “I think that people want Peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it.”
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