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Originally Posted by Botnst
#1 addresses both of the instances you mention.
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True, but it doesn't address how to respond after someone has foolishly sent troops into a strategically unimportant situation.
Somalia for example. Suppose we had stayed for years, and killed, say, 100 K gun happy Somalis and lost one or two K of our own. What sort of propaganda would OBL have taken from that?
I think the SOB was set on creating havoc one way or the other and the notion that we should have stayed in Somalia so as to make OBL think we were pretty tough is fanciful.