Next Move in Iraq

12/17/2006 -- No one that I know in my generation thinks that the best move in Irag is to send another 15-20,000 additional combat troops. Did we learn nothing from Viet Nam? Have we learned nothing about the kind of tactics that might be effective against an insurgencY? I hope that if The Decider ( aka God) comes down with this decision, the military - or at least someof them - will scrap their careers and say publicly it is the wrong move. Maybe even Colin Powell will redeem himself and express his view that this will just compound the disaster. If Bush nakes such a decision, it will be to roll the dice in a last ditch effort to save what is left of his reputation and come out with something he can call "victory"...some victory - surrounded by the dead and seriously wounded Americans and the tens of thousands of Iraqies tortured and dead! Let's just say we did our best with best intentions and it did n't work.