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A 100-year war? Or a draft? (letter to editor) The United States and the United Nations lack the authority, the world support, and the will to enforce the partitioning of Iraq into Shia, Sunni, and Kurdish territories. Whenever we leave, Iraq will instantly become a theocracy, resulting in thousands more assassinations. If the U.S. wishes to beat the insurgents before President Bush leaves office, he should activate the military draft now and promptly add 200,000 or more combat personnel to duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. The draft should cost less than losing the Iraq war. Neither retreat nor a 100-year religious war is a viable option. Now is the time to build up our military forces, six to 12 months before any potential need to face possible military action by Iran or North Korea. The mission of the additional forces in Iraq will have to be to seal its borders, secure the entire countryside, and block every road into every city, a strategy employed by Mao Zedong, per Wei Chi, as he defeated Chiang Kai-shek for control of mainland China. We lost Vietnam and the Brits lost Colonial America because of the failure to control the countryside. Daniel B. McElwain Jr. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
