So my twenty page term paper got corrupted

[Problem Child]

Powell Doctrine in brief

All of these conditions must be met before military force should be used by the US.

1. Vital interests of the nation or its allies must be at stake.
2. A clear commitment to victory must exist.
3. Political and military objectives must be clear
4. Forces must be properly sized to achieve the objective.
5. Reasonable assurance of public and Congressional support must be secured prior to intervening.
6. Force must be used only as a last resort

Well, I think #2 is most important. you have to go to win, otherwise don't go. After that #4 backs up number two. Although I would re-word it to say that we should strive for overwhelming victory every time. Kick the living shit out of anyone we decide to fight fom day one. Anything else is half-ass.

I agree with three of course. need to know what the fuck your doing before you get in there. #5 is a good idea. No more viet Nams.

6 is logical.

The only one I'm not sure about is #1. Was Bosnia in our national interest? I can't really see how.

Would Rwanda have been in our national interest? No, but it would have been the morally right thing to do.

Somalia wasn't in our national intereset, but again, it was the morally right thing to do, but it wasn't supposed to be a war.

When the lines between peacekeeping and warfighting get muddied, then I get nervous.

 

[lavender]

 

[Azwed]

Most people say that The Powell Doctrine was not used in either Bosnia or Somalia. I agree with them.

Powell told congress it would take 300,000 troops on the ground to help out in Bosnia.

The way I see it the doctrine has to be selectively applied because it is not going to work in all scenarios.

 

[Azwed]

All my sources are fairly recent articles in journals.

Oldest thing I have is 1996 I think.

 

[seXieleXie]

shit, i need to change my major so i can get homework help from board members

 

[clit_licker30]

The only one I'm not sure about is #1. Was Bosnia in our national interest? I can't really see how.

Would Rwanda have been in our national interest? No, but it would have been the morally right thing to do.

Somalia wasn't in our national intereset, but again, it was the morally right thing to do, but it wasn't supposed to be a war.

When the lines between peacekeeping and warfighting get muddied, then I get nervous.

I don't think Powell was involved in these fuckups. I believe all of those were Clinton fuckups.

 

[lavender]

 

[Azwed]

I don't think Powell was involved in these fuckups. I believe all of those were Clinton fuckups.

You shut your mouth cause you don't have a clue what you are talking about.

Somalia was a fuck up on every single level. From Private to President.

 

[lavender]

 

[Weevil]

See, this is why I wrote all of my papers by hand. In illegible writing.

 

[Azwed]

They are up above in list form.

Lavy

 

[lavender]

 

[lavender]

 

[Azwed]

I pretty much know what I want to say.

The short version is to do a few pages on how the doctrine evolved from negative experiences in Vietnam and Iran and how it was reinforced to be the correct thing to do by the expericnes in Lybia, Panama and The gulf.

But you get Somalia and Bosnia in there and they are kind of in the other category.

Thats where I am going to go into how the Doctrine is limited to certain situations.

 

[Azwed]

Just tell me what you think of my summarization.

Everything I have read leads me to belive that it is right and I have plenty of stuff to support it.

 

[lavender]

 

[Problem Child]

i agree with everyone here except that clitdude, cuz he's abig fuckstick.

print that.

 

[seXieleXie]

damn PC, you're sexy when you're drunk. c'mere, let's fuck already.

 

[lavender]

 

[clit_licker30]

Insert floppy and hit Ctrl+S every few words.

I hate when a project gets wiped out. But it has never happened to me. Ctrl+S will save a lot of misery. If you have Office 2000 or XP set it up for automatic save every minute or so.

 

[Problem Child]

sexielexie, you're cute.

I bet you have really cute college girl breastiges.

Am i right? huh?

you can answer lewd uncle PC....

 

[Azwed]

I can just see my Prof's face now.

What is this Lavender source?????

Me: Oh she is this hot Texas lawyer Chica you would like her.



I also have some stuff that I want to tie in about casualty Shyness and media effects. How powerful seeing captured or deat americans on TV can be and how it vastly limits public support.

 

[Azwed]

I had brestages pics up early PC well clevage at least anyway.

 

[clit_licker30]

i agree with everyone here except that clitdude, cuz he's abig fuckstick.

print that.

thats what I heard too, got another drink?

 

[seXieleXie]

sexielexie, you're cute.

I bet you have really cute college girl breastiges.

Am i right? huh?

you can answer lewd uncle PC....

well i could tell you but i think we'd both enjoy it more if you waited a few weeks until i could give you a live, in person demo