Let's write to Congress (www.congress.org):
Dear Representative:
It is insane for our troops in the Middle East to patrol back and forth and back and forth and be picked off day after day after day. We have forgotten our own country's history! The enemy hasn't. (Hint: we are the British and they are the Rangers . . . ) If we are to use our numbers as a strength, we need to flood into small sites where the infrastructure is being built and rebuilt by our Army Corps of Engineers along with local workers (electric systems, dams, etc. which should be our ONLY form of "restitution" and financial aid) and slowly spread out from there, leaving enough troops to secure those sites until the end. Think of a U.S. force entering a small village with engineers and hiring local workers to dig wells and set up wind combines and solar panels and, accepting the village's hospitality (and thus protection), staying to secure those new benefits until jihadists see that their desperation is a poor choice. Now, that would be a different kind of war.
Sincerely,
