Strategic Redeployment - A Progressive Plan
Too many neocon so called news people constantly ask the same old tired question:
"All the democrats want to do is bash the president. If they are so damn smart, why don't they have a plan?"
Newsflash! Progressive do have a plan to win the global war on terror, and it is called Strategic Redployment.
Following is a two paragraph summary of this plan published on the Center for American Progress website (see link in title).
"The United States needs to pursue a plan of Strategic Redeployment. Strategic Redeployment is a threat-based strategy to target our efforts against global terrorist networks and bring greater stability to Iraq and its neighborhood. This approach will minimize the damage to the United States in the short term, mitigate the drawbacks of our eventual withdrawal from Iraq, and secure our interests in the long term. Strategic Redeployment differs from other plans for what to do in Iraq by recognizing that Iraq is now connected to a broader battle against global terrorist networks - even though it was not before the Bush administration's invasion. Strategic Redeployment also means re-engaging our allies, building a platform for multilateral cooperation that counters the terrorist threats we face, rather than relying on ad-hoc "coalitions of the willing."
Strategic Redeployment has four main components: military realignment that restores a realistic deployment policy for our active and reserve forces and moves troops to other hot spots in the struggle against global terrorist networks or brings them home to rebuild; a global communications campaign to counter misinformation and hateful ideologies; new regional diplomatic initiatives; and smarter support for Iraq's renewal and reconstruction.
Date Created: 9/29/2005 2:14:14 PM"
The summary the Full Report is an 11 page PDF file. Pleae read it and let people know there is an intelligent alternative to "Stay the Course."
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"All the democrats want to do is bash the president. If they are so damn smart, why don't they have a plan?"
Newsflash! Progressive do have a plan to win the global war on terror, and it is called Strategic Redployment.
Following is a two paragraph summary of this plan published on the Center for American Progress website (see link in title).
"The United States needs to pursue a plan of Strategic Redeployment. Strategic Redeployment is a threat-based strategy to target our efforts against global terrorist networks and bring greater stability to Iraq and its neighborhood. This approach will minimize the damage to the United States in the short term, mitigate the drawbacks of our eventual withdrawal from Iraq, and secure our interests in the long term. Strategic Redeployment differs from other plans for what to do in Iraq by recognizing that Iraq is now connected to a broader battle against global terrorist networks - even though it was not before the Bush administration's invasion. Strategic Redeployment also means re-engaging our allies, building a platform for multilateral cooperation that counters the terrorist threats we face, rather than relying on ad-hoc "coalitions of the willing."
Strategic Redeployment has four main components: military realignment that restores a realistic deployment policy for our active and reserve forces and moves troops to other hot spots in the struggle against global terrorist networks or brings them home to rebuild; a global communications campaign to counter misinformation and hateful ideologies; new regional diplomatic initiatives; and smarter support for Iraq's renewal and reconstruction.
Date Created: 9/29/2005 2:14:14 PM"
The summary the Full Report is an 11 page PDF file. Pleae read it and let people know there is an intelligent alternative to "Stay the Course."
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posted by REB 84 at
11/30/2005 10:45:00 PM
5 Comments:
another view of this plan...http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051004/unstrategic_redeployment.php
No endorsement here for either plan...just more ideas
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Cal Trask, at 11:49 PM, November 30, 2005
Thanks Cal, I'll Check it out. We need to hear more about these plans. Where is the media on this?
By
REB 84, at 7:07 AM, December 01, 2005
The same place they always are...looking for ratings
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Cal Trask, at 9:49 AM, December 01, 2005
that is why the blogs are so truely an asset for "we the people."
we don't need to worry about the ratings, and can go directly to the information sharing / exchange, which leads to better representative governance.
we have to be an informed citizenry to get to that, and the blogs are over the head of the "control" of information.
when we use these forums to share information with each other, we will end up understanding what we are up against, and gain insights into how to work together as americans across our "cultural" and "philosophical" differences.
my personal hope, is that one day we take the time to convein a constitutional convention, sort out the "electoral" problems we are having and secure "we the people's vote"
noguns sheehan, santa cruz, ca.
By
noguns, at 2:10 AM, December 03, 2005
How many politicians have blogs?
By
DTW 05, at 1:10 AM, December 04, 2005
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