US administration to abolish due process

[Rick]

And why is it a totally different scenario with the Baath Party, or even to an extent the Taliban?

For one reason, unlike with the IFs, we fought a total war with the nazis - they truly surrendered and quit. The IFs know that because they only face a Pee See war, they can just play all the games and then take over whent the US leaves.

 

[PLC1]

The President (in his public statements) has seemed to indicate that July 2011 is a hard deadline for when some troops are going to head home... Some of his advisers have indicated that the deadline is not a hard one, so we shall see...

I would say some troops are going to be coming home prior to 2012, but it does not mean we will be out of there, or that the war is won etc.

As an aside, we are not pursuing the typical COIN strategy in Afghanistan, because it is simply not feasible...rather it is a modified version that does not seek to obtain all the typical goals.

Yes, no doubt some troops will come home in 2011, so that the administratinon can leap and hoot about how well the war effort is going, how it will soon be over, all that in order to get votes for a second term. None of that will mean that the war is actually being won, however.