AFPAK Mini-Khe Sanh All Over Again 2: Pathetic USMC Outpost in Low Ground

7. Notice the asshole mentality of the marine NCO sure to piss off and alienate any Afghans he comes into contact with. Yet more reason why we need a professional, dedicated sub-national conflict corps that would be professional enough to build sensor-security fences and not think the solution to everything is a narcissist-with-a-rifle: http://www.combatreform.org/johnpaulvann.htm 7. The new Afghanistan commander, General McCrystal's de-emphasis of the AFPAK border line to try to guard "ink blots" of towns/villages with the POTUS Obama "surge"--an influx of 100, 000 total U.S. troops is going to just draw conflict to the civilians we are trying to protect--if the Taliban/Pashtuns don't con us by taking our bribes and laying low to feed our "troop surge" egos that we "won" the conflict just because of a TEMPORARY absence-of-violence (AOV). An AOV does not mean the war is over--much less won. Bribing the rebels in AFPAK while not showing genuine military command of the situation (real control of the borders, MSRs etc.) is not going to convince them to lay-down their arms and "get a [civilian] life". Its nothing more than the Vietnam war bureaucratic "body count" death attrition mentality replaced with a "cash count" quantification to attrit the enemy rather than decisively defeat him by smothering war. However, if we SECURED the AFPAK border with a sensor-security fence we'd stabilize the security situation with respect-generating military SUCCESS so we could tell the Taliban to "go get a life" from a position of moral strength if we also got rid of the Karazi central government's drug dealing. Subject: Cash Surge: Taliban Bribery Plan In the Absence of Military Success www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/17/us-tries-to-thin-taliban-with-offers-of-jobs-cash/ WAR is more than just applying violence in a lethal duel. Its a conflict of WILLS; whose WILL ends up dominating? is the issue--all of this talk about "never losing a battle in Vietnam" but still losing the war to try to attach blame to the American media and public's unwillingness to subsidize incompetent military troop occupations is immoral and dishonest. The battles we lost in Vietnam were our failure to overcome TBATE and the battle against NVA/VC men who could infiltrate through closed terrain because we refused to BUILD A SENSOR-SECURITY LINE to stop them. The lazy and impatient, American gunslinger & bribery mentality doesn't want to build lines to secure nation-state border traces even though THEY WORK; the Finns held off the entire Soviet Army in WW2 with the Mannerheim line, and they are a free nation today because of it. The French in Algeria held off rebels for several years with the Morice Line and had a conflict pause to negotiate a settlement. Israel is kept free with a sensor-security fence today and Saudi Arabia is building a wall to keep the problems of the Iraqis from spilling over into their nation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Nmj8qDDQFo