God is the last force we should be calling on just now.

I expect we will get much better results if we call on citizens to do the job.

For one thing, they know the territory.

This whole cycle of war has been a gruesome melange of misestimations and stupidities from the beginning. But supporting the individual troops is NOT hypocritical as your post suggests. It is simply saying that we understand WHERE the source of the stupidity lies.

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