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Instead of creating wars with half trillion-dollar price tags and endless streams of roadside bombings and mortar attacks, Green Berets and SEALS will slide in, grab the bad guys, and fly off into the night.
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While I doubt the substancial dollar price tag to the war in Iraq could have been avoided (although some more careful choices regarding contractors might have led to money being better spent) it didn't have to degenerate to the level it did and has. Rummy screwed up and didn't give the US Military enough people to control the country once they won the 'war' phase of the conflict. In effect, there wasn't ENOUGH mass to deal with the occupation.
And what happens to the Green Berets if one of their choppers gets shot down? This notion that high-technology and special forces can replace regular forces and good ol' fashioned firepower gets thrown around way too much, these things are force multiplyers, not the backbone of the Military. I'm sure if I know this then pretty much everyone else here would too so maybe I'm beating a dead horse.