On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Gautam Mukunda wrote: > Why thank you Marvin. I'm not posting right now > (except for this) I did 110+ hours at the office last > week (including 2:00am Saturday, which _sucked_, let > me tell you) and would be looking at the same this > week, except I leave for Denmark on Friday.
You're welcome. Get some sleep. > But if you think you're scared - I'm so jittery right > now I can barely think straight. As far as I can > tell, the battle plan looks like a template for 4th > generation warfare - OODA loops, engagement at > multiple levels, information dominance, the works. > Lots of very smart people came up with those ideas. A > fair number of less smart people have been arguing > that they were a good idea for a while now (count me > in that second group). But they're just theories. No > one, in the entire history of the world, has ever > tried anything remotely like this. There are about a > million ways things can go wrong, and we have _no_ > margin for error. In my lifetime the stakes have > never been so high, for the US and the world. I think we have very different nightmares. :-) I have every confidence in our armed forces, even if things don't go entirely as planned. Not that I'm especially familiar with all the operational wrinkles of modern warfare. I also believe that to whatever degree politics permits it, our men and women in uniform will be the ultimate evidence of America's basic decency after the occupation begins. It's the people on *this* side of the Atlantic I worry about. Marvin Long Austin, Texas Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Poindexter & Ashcroft, LLP (Formerly the USA) http://www.breakyourchains.org/john_poindexter.htm _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
