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This Is Not Iraq, Hegseth Promises
It's not Iraq, but it's not an overnight, quick fix either.
That was the message on Monday from Pet
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You know….like a…”concept of a plan”
This president knows less than Sgt. Schultz in Hogan’s Heroes. But Trump does look a little like Schultz
Prof. Phillips O’Brien has an excellent Substack (Phillips’s Newsletter) where he writes on the uses and limits of airpower. Worth a look.
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Am I the only one who found this to be very reassuring?
“This is not Iraq, this is not endless. Our generation knows better and so does this President”
Right.
Nobody should be allowed to be a cop who really, really, really wants to be a cop/ICE – equally so for military leadership.
I am sure “‘victory” is not definable by these guys. Surrender? Suicide? Saying they are sorry?
Or as midterms get closer, whatever happens will turn into what we wanted to happen when we started this bombing this time.
Total and complete exoneration and obliteration. You can believe them when they tell you that.
(Normally, neither exoneration nor obliteration requires any adjective or qualifiers, so their presence means the Administration is trying too hard, which also usually means they are lying. They are more credible when just claiming not to know something or not to have heard about something, despite that usually being suspicious by the fact that they didn’t even bother to make up a lie about it).