Deborah wrote in
news:fi3t93pvc46rhdvh4o2gu1gh0tj6mlg9i3@4ax.com:
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:45:36 -0400, edonline
> wrote:
>
>>"He was 19 years old and could see the futility of Iraq invasion and
>>occupation," the woman wrote. "I agree with my son."
>
> Same thing I've been hearing from Canadian troops at home about how
> the troops abroad see their mission in Afghanistan. We get a
> different story from them when they are talking to the media. They
> say what they have to say. But the reality is, few of them see the
> mission as one that will succeed.
I'm more interested in the (honest) opinions of the mid-level officers,
Captains and Majors, who at least have a vague idea what is the big
picture. The guys on the ground are the ones who get shit on, so their
thoughts are often quite pessimistic.
If you remember that essay that was posted here, maybe a year ago,
called the Four Rules of American Warfare, I'm convinced that it was
written by an officer, because they guy had obviously done a *lot* of
reading on the history of war. I suppose that he might have been as low
as a 1st Lieutenant, but there's no way to know.
The guy's take on American involvement in the Middle East is that
historically, our escapades over there typically do nothing but cause
chaos, and so far it's looking like he was dead on the bulls-eye.
Perhaps his nickname was "Hawkeye."
Have you noticed that the threatened defection of seven or eight Senate
Republicans has caused Bush to mount another propaganda offensive?
After four years of flailing around pointlessly, all of a sudden the
news if full of stories about how wonderful everything is, and how Al
Qaeda wants to attack us at home.
I think that they just manipulated the intelligence again, because, once
you can see how the Repugnicans operate, their dishonest ploys become
quite transparent. The only good to come out of this will be that Bush,
Cheney & Rumsfool will go down in history as bunglers of the magnitude
of a Greek tragedy. Or the magnitude of Nixon. |
