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Originally posted by MOBIUS
Stop being dumb, otherwise I'll have to change my opinion as to whether it suits you...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the Soviet Union start with swift initial successes before they got bogged in a quagmire?
OTOH, the success of this small footprint strategy was so great, that Rummy tried it in Iraq. Where it proved to be a mistake (IMHO). So the Afghan invasion DID result in a "quagmire-thingie", but in Iraq, not Afghanistan."A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin Buber
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It's not like Rummy wasn't already predisposed towards favoring the "small footprint" approach. But I think it follows logically that the success of the Afgan operation (and I do think it was a success) enboldened him & those who thought like him, and made it easier to convince or override those who thought we needed a lot more troops in Iraq.
Add in the fact that we were unable to put together much of a coalition, and you get the "small footprint" approach for Iraq.
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