Posted by
Buster Foghorn on Thursday, November 30, 2006 10:08:37 PM
"Audacity, always audacity, still more audacity."
General George Patton
What would General Patton advise President Bush to do with the much anticipated James Baker, Iraq Study Group (ISG) recommendation to talk with Iran and Syria about achieving stability in Iraq? Patton would likely point to the military campaigns in Afghanistan, where the Taliban were promptly driven out of the country, and in Iraq were Saddam was quickly forced to flee Baghdad. He might say: using U.S. Special Forces with cell phones on camels to help the Afghan rebels defeat the Taliban was “audacious,” and General Tommy Frank’s battle plan racing to Baghdad to remove Saddam was “more audacious.” Rather than talking to Syria, who is sedulously training assassins to kill leaders in Lebanon, and Iran, who is assiduously training Shia militia in Iraq, you need: "Still More Audacity."