Re: What is Wrong With Timetables


"Bert Byfield" <bertbyfield@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Xns9A367F1671E31bbyfield34caravelaxy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
John McCain is using the word "timetable" to beat Romney over the
head. I'd ask, "What is wrong with having a timetable"? To say

Time tables are good planning and part of any military strategy.

For those nations which *have* a strategy.

Every nation has a strategy when they think the task is important. It might be the right strategy or the wrong strategy, but they do have a strategy....


Time tables should NOT be used to tell the folks you're fighting
when you will leave.

UNLESS the folks you are fighting live there and the hostile invading
force does not. Then the foreign invaders should get out. To stay and
refuse to set a timetable is the mark of the barbarian.

Only if it is not important to stay.

There's a huge difference. Example - in WWII
the Allies plan was Europe first, hold the line in the Pacific,

WWII has NOTHING to do with it. That was a real war. The "low intensity
conflict" we are inflicting on Iraq is just barbarism and sadism. Not
war. A mugging is very different from a war.



When people are dying, to say it is not a war is kind of meaningless.

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