"The Same Enemy"???? In AFGHANISTAN???

Is the Taliban in Iraq? Are the people who bombed the WTC in Iraq? is OSAMA in Iraq?

Please explain how leaving Iraq now is "surrender." Please explain how pulling troops out of Iraq is "ignoring their sacrifices."

Go.

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A lot of people will probably agree with you... It does not change the fact that they are wrong.
Being in the military in and of itself is no evidence that a person understands war from the macro level or has the ability to do the job of president of the United States.
Maybe if he were a general, I'd think it would matter more.

But being that a soldier or mid-level officer does not have the same responsibilities and perspective as the president... I don't see the connection.
Other than the simplified: "Oh he was in war, so he must know war" mantra.

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-opening from Tales From the Darkside

Not many people will agree with you, and you are still wrong!
Being a General means his understanding has been polluted by politics that enter the miltary ranks at that level! A ground level understanding of what works and doesn't work is far more beneficial! I see it every day in the corporate world, politically ambitious upper ranking guys and ladies desperately trying to come up with something new they can attach their names to and call a success, all the while ignoring past lessons learned about what works and doesn't!

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Clark is an Obama surrogate, who takes orders from who?

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Aint but three things in this world thats worth a solitary dime,
But old dogs and children and watermelon wine.
Tom T. Hall
http://www.obamatruth.org/

So, let's walk through the "logic" of that statement.

Clark is an Obama surrogate. Therefore, even though Obama publically spanked Clark for MAKING the statement, it's Obama's fault he MADE the statement... under direct orders from Obama... to make the statement he later spanked Clark for making.

My head hurts now.

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and a community organizer has better experience?

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Aint but three things in this world thats worth a solitary dime,
But old dogs and children and watermelon wine.
Tom T. Hall
http://www.obamatruth.org/

Let's examine the logic of this question.

McCain has military experience.

Obama has community organizing experience.

I guess it all depends on what you want from the next president...

Someone with experience in dropping bombs on people and killing them...

Or someone with experience in bringing people together for a common good.

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Good Cop/Bad Cop its not that hard to understand!

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I do know his race relations are good in terms of how he accomodated Larry Sinclair

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Liberals believe it is okay to kill babies
but not terrorists.

And understanding how to make decisions from the macro perspective... Can't really downplay that.

From the ground point of view which loses the perspective of the whole. It can be useful when combined with a macro perspective (I'd imagine most generals have both), but detrimental when assumed to be all there is.

Sure, management does that... primarily because they are focused on the big picture and large trends... which do not always translate well to local trends (I was in sales myself... It's hard not to notice that). Sometimes they could use a little advice from the ground.

But that said... a manager looking at the big picture has a much better understanding of how to run a big picture than a grunt.
Your observations about a particular store/location/battlefield/whatever might be quite apt and more in line with that situation than that of your manager/general... but I bet your manager/general has a better understanding of what's going on EVERYWHERE.

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"Man lives in the sunlit world of that which he believes to be reality. But unseen by most is an underworld, a place that is just as real... but not as brightly lit... A DARK SIDE!"
-opening from Tales From the Darkside