The Kagan monthly column for the Post is a plea for the President to get with the program – the neoconservative program – and stop talking about troop reductions. Troop reductions are not going to happen, says Kagan.
And he should know, of course. He’s one of the handful of people who really and truly understand why American soldiers, bureaucrats and contractors are occupying Iraq, building bases, interfering with their "sovereign" government, guarding the oil fields and allocating the oil contracts. It isn’t about Mars or Venus, or democracy or stability. It isn’t about terrorism, unless terrorism can help convince economically pressured American taxpayers and worried American families to stay the stupid course mapped out all those years before Dubya stumbled into the White House.
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Kagan can fantasize all he wants. The fact is that the National Guard and the Army Reserve have used up the two years they can be ordered oversea. In order to redeploy these units it will take an act of Congress to change the regulations governing their use outside of the US. As far as the Regular Army goes, there simply aren't enough of them to garrison Iraq, repair all the broken down equipment, train and be ready for other duty assignments. Of course, Kagan is a Neocon and this is just one of many examples of them creating their own reality, whether it bears any resemblance to the true situation or not.
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