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U.S. deficient against Muslim insurgents, study says - Pentagon papers Re Deux
2008-02-12
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. military is seriously deficient in meeting "the threat of Islamist insurgencies," says a Pentagon-commissioned study released Monday.

The Rand Corp. report characterizes "U.S. military intervention and occupation in the Muslim world" as "at best inadequate, at worst counter-productive, and, on the whole, infeasible." The Pentagon asked the nonprofit research organization to review strategies to thwart insurgents.

The United States should instead focus its priorities on improving "civil governance" and building "local security forces," according to the report, referring to those steps as "capabilities that have been lacking in Iraq and Afghanistan."
Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC

#5  Europe has to decide whether they're going to fight the islamists in Europe, or in the islamists' home countries. I'd think after having their cities and towns ground in to powder twice in 40 years, they'd opt for the latter, but you never can tell with Europeons.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2008-02-12 22:31  

#4  Forgot to add that Euros in abovesame WAff article also believe that the CASH-STRAPPED AMERICA NEEDS THE EU MORE THAN THE EU NEEDS AMERICA???

"EUROEPANS" - sorry about that. NOT MY FAULT THOUGH AS LATELY SKYNET/MATRIX, etc, HAS BEEN *** UP. TOO MANY BYTES/PAGES + NOWHERE TO IMMED DOWNLOAD???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2008-02-12 20:52  

#3  WAFF.com > TORONTO SUN - EUROEPANS SEE WHAT AMERICANS DO NOT. Many Euros hold that NATO was created to defend Europe only from Soviet aggression, NOT TO USE UP ITS MILFORS FIGHTING AMERICA'S WARS FRO AMERICA E.G. IRAQ-AFGHANISTAN??? Article - USA needs up to 400,000 Amer troops in actually defeat the mostly Pashtun-led resistance in Pakistan-Afghan, NOT 66,000 US-NATO troops dubiously backed up by the Afghan National Army = disguised local mercenaries???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2008-02-12 20:48  

#2  They should just read Rantburg to have all their questions answered. Cheaper too - even if they hit the tip jar.
Posted by: Glenmore   2008-02-12 07:56  

#1  The Pentagon asked the nonprofit research organization to review strategies to thwart insurgents.

Think we need a procurement requirement that identifies studies which are the result of earmarks in the funding bills to support work in people's districts. Throw in the office's GO or Secretary's name which did the request if it wasn't an earmark.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2008-02-12 07:27  

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