Bush, Cheney, Blair, & now Olmert - have demonstrated no grasp of military affairs?

Post-9/11 Era Forum

So 5 years since 9/11, What's the verdict on these chicken hawks in Washington, have they shown any grasp of military affairs?

And choosing now to "quietly deploy thousands more troops to Afghanistan to hunt Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri in a desperate attempt to save Republicans from getting clobbered in November midterm elections", isn't this Bush utterly abusing his position and power? Does America just turn a blind eye to such cynical misuse of troops?

I think quietly deploying a massive amount of troops is exactly the right thing to do. How else are we going to catch that bastard? By announcing it to the world to be analyzed, speculated upon, and chopped up and handed out politically before hitting the desert again? I think a misuse of troops would be to have them and only use them when the enemy knows what to expect after watching the BBC news. So I suppose this means that if we catch Osama this time, it's wrong for some reason or another, right?

Well the thing is that quietly deploying lot and lots of troops in to the Afghan region will most likley fail mainly because it has failed before. This whole idea of flooding the area with troops smacks of desperation.
Between the UK, US and NATO foprces out there we have tried carpet bombing the area, precison bombing the area, sending in special forces, working with warlords, working with locals, deploying a special British army commando unit that is specialised in mountain warfare, we have used spy planes, tapped phone lines, blocked bank acounts, bombed Al Jazerra to stop tapes being broadcast, used the CIA, FBI, MI5 and MI6. Take all that into account and then remember that there are already thousands of troops in Afghanistan on a mission that includes the capture of OBL and his gang yopu start to realise that Bush and Blair are probably not the military masterminds they would like to be.