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Originally Posted by astralis
S-2,
i wouldn't want it to be open-ended- a timetable should be set and kept to. however, a force of around 50K-75K is sustainable over some period of time given the increases in the force structure as outlined by SECDEF gates. and there will be very good benefits: as i said earlier, it will allow our troops to concentrate on defeating al-qaeda, deter turkish adventurism, and if positioned away from the cities, give us a good base for wielding a stick versus iran. this force is sufficient for these matters, but insufficient for running the country (the force we have in place today ain't enough for that, anyways).
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I haven't been drinking, so I have NO idea how to explain my total agreement with your very sensible post (with one caveat: NO TIMELINES; every decision on troop levels should be predicated on the extant situation on the ground, PERIOD).
Maybe YOU have been drinking.
