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Originally Posted by mburbank
For the sake of argument, okay, though I think the stovepiping of intelligence, the outsourcing of interrogation and the dominance of the Pentagon over both State and CIA point to a different conclusion, but for arguments sake...
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I'm not so sure how micro-managed the intelligence community is and how much free-lance is involved.
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Originally Posted by mburbank
Now that we know our SUV's are unarmored and we're in urban combat, might we not make a really good effort to armor them? And don't say we are, because after the last time W said that, HUMV said they were perfectly capable of doing a lot more a lot faster and had said so before.
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That's a pretty massive under-taking on short-notice. Your talking about not only changing equipment but the whole doctrine of how we fight and what we fight with.