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Think Before You Rush to War!
• http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org, by Eric MargolisUnfortunately, the amateur strategists in the White House seem to have been studying social anthropology and women's issues instead of basic military science. What they want is, to use the term coined by Russian poet Yevtuschenko, a half war.
This week, Pentagon chief Ash Carter, announced the US would send about 200 more special forces troops to Iraq and Syrian to fight the Islamic State. After vowing not to send troops to the Mideast, President Obama has by now deployed 3,500 new US soldiers to Iraq for "training."
The best way to lose or at least prolong a war is by committing penny packets of troops. The US did precisely this in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan – and lost all these wars. Now, we're on to more half-measures in the Levant.