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"No Timetable" Doesn't Hold Water

Just read that as Bush mourned the loss of more valiant Marines, he stated that there would be "no timetable" for early withdrawal of troops because that would mean the insurgents would then adjust their tactics to wait us out. This just doesn't make sense.

No timetable means no objective. Without that end date, what success bar are we measuring our current strategies and tactics against? If I wanted to get out of Iraq by Christmas, then wouldn't I want milestones from now until then that would ensure I would reach my objective? My milestones would need to be based on insurgent activity, rooting them out and eliminating their ability to do harm while training the Iraqi security forces. Once that was achieved the US could leave. No timetable means that we are working on an indefinite length of stay, and an ambiguous goal, which to me creates an environment of unending violence and an unjust mandate to stay until we say when.

If we set a milestone on when we want to leave, a proactive strategy to meet that date would be implied. Without that milestone, there is nothing but a military that is reactive to insurgent actions.

Enough about that... next post will be about CARS!!

posted by Michael Shogun @ 2:54 PM