Green Line
Junior Chimp
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« on: October 05, 2016, 06:04:38 PM » |
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It was a mess. When we act we need to go all in or not act at all, no half measures designed to placate the public. If we were going to get involved in Libya it should have been with massive firepower and troops. We should have gone in and ensured that the government being set up in the aftermath was exactly the government that we wanted and that it would work for us. Not just drop a few bombs, scatter the army, and leave the rebels to pick up the pieces.
It was a similar situation to Iraq. We cheaped out in the Iraq War because Rumsfeld wanted the invasion to be as cheap and undisruptive to the public as possible. We should have gone in with <600,000 troops, enough to actually occupy the entire country and clean up any dissenters.
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