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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSun Tzu: "Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy....
is the noise before defeat."
In my view, this is exactly what Obama is proposing: bombing a few targets in Syria (a tactical move) without having an overall strategy for success. Thus it is doomed to failure from simply a military standpoint, according the the Art of War.
Unless, of course, they actually have a strategy which is regime change to a puppet state at all costs (the neocon plan)......
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KoKo
(84,711 posts)that's just ME.
SharonAnn
(13,776 posts)morningfog
(18,115 posts)They are lying to us.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)I suspect because they dont want to reveal the REAL tactics (boots on the ground) until its a fait accomplii.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)
bhikkhu
(10,718 posts)unless you take the long view and say that success would be preventing the future use or proliferation of chemical weapons.
There's been very little use of chemical weapons since the Geneva Convention in 1925, and the goal is to keep it that way. So success would be a continuation of the status quo - something that nobody is likely to notice really.
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)bhikkhu
(10,718 posts)but enforcing an international law can be done in many ways, and is a whole different thing. What counts is that it is effective and limited to its main objective.
harun
(11,348 posts)This is about politics in the U.S. and Israel. It has nothing to do with how Syria ends up.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)-Sun Tzu
Compare this level of intellect to our elected officials. Thank fuck we don't have Sun Tzu as our opponent, he'd conquer this nation in a week with guys like Kerry and Boehner running the country.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Hestia
(3,818 posts)of trillion there, bricks of cash being used as footballs - now you're talking real transfer of wealth to the 1%.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)the 99% for their soldiers as they smite those leaders that dont conform to their agenda. Of course once the dictator is gone, they will have the 99% fight the new leaders. And it goes on.
