lets see ,sir, hummm, well formulating more "soft" intellegence assets through covert means, on the ground, ie buying people off to spy on each other etc to include the spread of pro american propaganda as well as the development of friendly auxilleries would have to be number one,,
more tech coverage, better aplication of field intellegence to begin with, our ucav's and other spy satcom type of tech is only good if deployed, lol,, yu should really have this conversation with my husband he was an AF resistence training survival instructor (which means he really really knows his torture and phycological manipulation skills)and he would be the first to tell you that u dont have to torture someone at all phisically to break them and or extract wonderful intellegence,
in fact he told me the only reason they water board prisoners is cause its much faster and thats the only thing it is,much more accurete information is extracted through more subtle phycological manipulation, but that takes more time, so basically they water board for the sake of time and money alone,
the info is less accurate, shrugs what can i say:
more over we the USA doesnt ned the bad rep as a country that will torture you if you surender practicality speaking: during desert storm you never hear about us torturing people becuase we didnt have too, they surrendered in droves, we out teched and intelled them,we also had a very good reputation back then
it was garenteed we wouldnt torture u in fact the oppiste was true, we would feed cloth and shelter you, of course by that argument we would have to give all the insurgents welfare lol,
but really sir, if we continue on this path our credibility is shot, we have hardened our enemies against us with each and every step in the direction we have been taking that led up to 911 and recently within the invasion of iraq
, vietnam was a stain on or honnor for a reason,and to ignore the historical parrelles of the two is to court our own folly again
if things dont change this will be a second vietnam or worse, its allready spread into two countries and is being suported through iran and syria if not suadia arabia, i am not saying cut and run, i am saying we need something different and if i knew what it was i would be wearing stars and bars instead of a collar sir , winks and hugs for you and stripey