Here is an interesting article from Mr. Hebert
http://select.nytimes.com/...
explaining the obvious political pawns the US military are. I wanted to put on the table a strategy that might work away from this tedious political debate.
Lets take the brutal heat months of July/August...and get the troops out of garrison to launch a major ground/air offensive like Linebacker II in 1973 that almost won the Vietnam War. There are thousands of US troops jerking off in places like Kuwait, Qatar and Iraq (Green Zone, Balad AB)...a real presence patrol might just rap this up. Part of the problem is that only about 20% of the US forces can actually fire an M4 or have essential combat skillz- run the other way when an Air Force member has to clear a weapon!
Finally, the Russians seem to be staging fake protests in NYC concerning Chechnya rebels. We could run an info operations campaign in Iraq to give peace a chance! Remember FIREFOX- think like a Russian!