(first time diary - thanks kos)
Strategy defines the overarching goals you want to achieve, tactics are the methods you go about to achieve them.
Say your strategic goal is to keep an enemy’s army from entering your country and attacking your capital. There are numerous ways of going about this. A simple tactic would be to control access points from the enemy’s territory into yours with troops, equipment, weapons, electronic devices, etc.
The exact decisions you make as to deployments, weapons chosen, the types and numbers of troops you use to do this are all based on the tactical solutions that you’ve selected to accomplish your mission.
No matter the devices or techniques or technology used, the strategy remains the same – prohibit the enemy from entering your territory and attacking your capital.
Strategy is what you want and tactics are the methods to achieve them. It’s a simple as that.
When the enemy attacks at point A, repulse them. When the enemy attacks at point B, repulse them. When the enemy attacks at point C, repulse them.
The current thought is that it takes three times as many attackers as defenders, to win against a defensive position. In other words, unless you have 3-to-1, don’t even try it.
Real generals cope by massing forces against a weak-point – thereby achieving those 3-to-1 odds. Good generals on the other side counter that by quickly flexing their reaction forces to move to the point of attack, reinforcing the battle position and creating a situation on the ground where the attacker is now back to attacking with just 1-to-1.
Here the attacker loses. That’s how it works.
So a republican minority keeps attacking with even less than 1-to-1 and they keep winning. The repubs attack the democrats at every level and every turn and we have no real generals. We have NOBODY repulsing them at point A, B, or C.
We are taking an ass-whipping of strategic proportions.
Republican strategy: motivate democrats into eating their own.
Republican tactic: Introducing multiple pieces of nonsensical legislation hoping to impel a pathetic response from democrats (so far so good).
Senate: Lieberman-Kyl amendment: my own Sen. Diane Feinstein (voted yea) repudiates what she said in June:
As has been said on this floor tonight a myriad of times, but I must echo it: The President shows no inclination to listen to a majority of the Senate, to the American people or to the House of Representatives. He has provided no exit strategy, no plan to begin redeploying our troops. Come September, there is no reason to believe anything will have changed. Why wait to act?
Because Senator, you'll give him anything he wants. Since you voted FOR his resolution on Iran, he doesn't need to listen to you, ever again. You must have had him shaking in his boots with your words last June.
House: resolution condemning moveon.org advertisement: my own Rep. Sam Farr, (D –Carmel, CA), his yea vote seems to not agree with what he posts on his website
I have made it perfectly clear that I favor withdrawal of our troops and an end to the bloodshed and waste of hundreds of billions of dollars. We must bring home our soldiers who are now caught in the middle of a civil war.
so he thinks that Petraeus told the truth, there is no civil-war and victory is right around the corner (where have I heard that before). Does he think that we won't care that this vote seems ill-advised and not well thought out and appears like a slap at free speech, while giving the puppet a free pass.
Does he think we're stupid? Couldn't he have just voted no?
So our Democratic representatives appear to be their own worst enemies, but they are not our enemies.
Maybe we shouldn't be too hard on these gutless wonders of public servitude. They are obviously ignorant folks that still don't realize that by the time they walk out after a vote to pee, their constituents already know how they voted.
Maybe instead of eating our own, let’s work with them and teach them that it is safe, that we have their backs, to just say no to any republican that wants to put forward some piece-of-shit legislation.
We can also tell them that if they keeping voting like cowards, they should maybe start calculating their moving box requirements.