[Vision2020] Today's Doonesbury

[Tom Hansen]

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"Bringing security to Baghdad -- the essential precondition for political
compromise, national reconciliation and economic development -- is possible
only with a surge of at least 30,000 combat troops lasting 18 months or so.
Any other option is likely to fail." 

-- Surge strategy originators Frederick Kagan and Gen. Jack Keane, in a
recent essay:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/26/AR2006122600
773.html


Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

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"Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of
uncertainty and fear -- with such a realization that the future is obscure
and that survival is not assured."

- Edward R. Murrow

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