Jumping the Gun.

In a message dated 3/23/04 2:35:42 PM, tango_dancer@... writes:

<< You do understand that that this Pentagon report is a *contingency*

plan and not a forecast. The Pentagon planners get paid to develop

all sorts of scenarios (there are even plans for how to invade

Canada!) and then plan military responses based on derived geo-

political realities.

All the Greenies went nuts when this came out and thought that Bush

was suppressing the truth.

TangoMan >>

He's right. This is a miltary job. The miltary are paid to assume the worst
and to plans for that possibility. This way they hope to avoid another Pearl
Harbor and Sept. 11, but as recent news shows it really requires political
will and good sense to really do the right thing, something that a army under
civilan control cannot do on their own without a coup. I'm sure somebody have a
study on how to fight the invading Martians!

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