Bush leaning toward a surge

or so it seems from the news that the president wants to increase the size of the U.S. military. W tells the Washington Post that we need more troops to fight the war on terror.

Or maybe, just maybe, ought we forget the idea of massive troop buildups and instead focus on the surgical, strategic special ops we should have used to target Saddam Hussein and, oh yeah, Osama bin Laden and future terror leaders? Should we have a conversation about the idea that you can't fight conventional wars against terrorists? Should we even broach the topic of whether persistent political and economic inequities - fueled by religious fanaticism and multinational greed - are the true Petri dishes of terror?

Oh, for some big ideas from someone in charge for a change.

Comments

[Bubblehead]

But didn't Senator Kerry also want to increase the size of the military? ( http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-06-03-kerry-military_x.htm )

[Julie in Boise]

I'm not necessarily opposed to a larger military, especially if having more troops meant being able to intervene in situations like Darfur.

Bottom line: I wish we worked smarter, not bigger.

[Bubblehead]

Do you seriously want American troops getting in firefights with Africans? While it's clear the world needs to do something about Darfur, and it'd be nice for the U.S. to have enough logistics capability to support the effort that way, I seriously doubt liberal support for an American intervention there would last beyond the first exchange of fire between U.S. forces and any non-Arab Sudanese faction.