Thursday, January 11, 2007
First Posting - The President Speaks!
This is my first posting, so welcome to my Blog. I am Mike Lyons, and I am a military analyst for the CBS Radio Network. I have been working for CBS for about 4 years now, since the initial invasion of Iraq, and what started out as temporary gig has blossomed into a daily interview with either the Network news desk or one of the many CBS affiliates thorough out the country.
So the President spoke on Iraq last night - here's the bottom line - not enough troops. First of all, does it feel like the country is even at war? I mean, we know the military is at war - we are sending troops back for the third time to a combat zone. But is the country at war? I am not so sure. He used words like last night such as "patience, sacrifice and resolve", but are we really doing the things a nation does when it goes to war? Have we mobilized our resources? Have we done anything to increase our war fighting effort? Nope, not one bit. 20,000 troops? Not hardly enough. If we are at war, if this is the war of this generation, the war which we started in fact, then let's finish it - mobilize the country, double the size of the active Army (or restore it to the Cold War numbers), and let's finish what we started. Sounds preposterous? Well, what are the alternatives? I have an idea - how about trying some diplomacy? That kept the great Russian horde from invading Western Europe for 50 years after WWII, perhaps it would have worked here? Of the four components required to solve this problem (Military, Diplomacy, Economic, Informational), we need less of the M, and more of the D.
So the President spoke on Iraq last night - here's the bottom line - not enough troops. First of all, does it feel like the country is even at war? I mean, we know the military is at war - we are sending troops back for the third time to a combat zone. But is the country at war? I am not so sure. He used words like last night such as "patience, sacrifice and resolve", but are we really doing the things a nation does when it goes to war? Have we mobilized our resources? Have we done anything to increase our war fighting effort? Nope, not one bit. 20,000 troops? Not hardly enough. If we are at war, if this is the war of this generation, the war which we started in fact, then let's finish it - mobilize the country, double the size of the active Army (or restore it to the Cold War numbers), and let's finish what we started. Sounds preposterous? Well, what are the alternatives? I have an idea - how about trying some diplomacy? That kept the great Russian horde from invading Western Europe for 50 years after WWII, perhaps it would have worked here? Of the four components required to solve this problem (Military, Diplomacy, Economic, Informational), we need less of the M, and more of the D.
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