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On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:19:56 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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I think we'd both be surprised by how quickly the military can deploy in
great numbers.

We sure have not seen them do it, ever in my life, unless you count
Granada.
It took 6 months to get into Kuwait and the "surges" take about that
long
They did rush into Somalia without proper support and got their ass
kicked by a street gang. The mountains of Afghanistan is infinitely
harder that Iraq, Kuwait or Somalia. Just keeping 5000 men in food and
ammo takes a significant effort in a place with no airports and not
much flat ground to create drop zone.


We had plenty of time in Afg. There was a fairly long run up to that war. We
started bombing in October.