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Ketih

Last night I watched on MSNBC three retired generals talking about how we (the US) can't continue to function as an active military force much longer since we don't have enough troops to rotate them out properly and therefore the reserves are being compromised because of the inefficient number of enlisted forces.

We may have to make a partial or full withdraw or bring in other countries military forces (of which we know none of them want to get into this mess because of retaliation aspects), to compliment the US forces already there.

In short they all agreed in part that this reads like VN all over again - except we don't have the draft or the personnel to sustain this current arrangement we have gotten ourselves into.

This will surely make the terrorist happy to hear that we may have to pull back or retreat all together, which will send the signals that we've reached a point that we can no longer sustain our actions in that area of the world. This is what they've been waiting to hear.

It is also becoming a US tax payer's nightmare as we are quickly going into major cost issues, which will increase our National Debt to unbelievable proportions of which we may never recover.

All this on TV last night - it was pretty shocking to here this - but I still don't think we are just ready to bail out - not yet. But its getting real ugly in the trenches and a lot of mud slinging has once more surfaced to which politicians are already thinking about the votes they will loose if this isn't resolved quickly.

It's got all the signs of earlier conflicts. Your thoughts.