… except that we’re already IN the cave. The controversy seems to be whether you can teleport your way out or whether you have to slog through some more tunnels before you see that nice blue sky again?
a standing hi-tech army of 100,000 vs how many guerrillas abandoned by the king and the darth? How embarrassing. sorry I forgot how many ‘contractor’ mercenaries? Obama boo-booed; there is a corollary to be drawn with Vietnam. It, too, was guerrilla warfare where a 10 year old may drop a satchel charge in the Huey and disappear, where the men could hide their weapons and sell a fish to a GI, where the distinction between VC and civilian was invisible. They were willing to take huge losses, and did, while the US had superior forces and planes and napalm and artillery to be called during a firefight because the VC, and NVA, was kicking the collective allied grunts. So the US won the battles and lost the war. The ideology was to get the US out. That was all. The US did not understand the people or the culture, a people and culture willing to wait decades. In Afghanistan, and Uraq, again the allies do not know the people, language, culture and cruises blind, deaf. However, this ideology is far more insidious, yet it does not need any particular office to plan its next move as they are in 60-70 different countries. John McCain et al tell us any projected hopeful date for withdrawal will ‘embolden’ our enemies to wait us out. Are they doing anything differently now? What made the Rovian hate/fear mongering war machine such a lock-step litmus of who is good and right? To his ‘kind’, proper etiquette and protocol is ‘weak’. Wrong, it is proper and correct. His ‘kind’ greets others with Mr Smith and Mr Wesson at the ready. Diplomacy and talk is an intellectual capacity his ‘kind’ lacks in the name of his, and their, own lunacy. Sadly, the exit strategy is a folly, but I am hopeful the Administration truly is considering the gestalt of the situation.
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… except that we’re already IN the cave. The controversy seems to be whether you can teleport your way out or whether you have to slog through some more tunnels before you see that nice blue sky again?
a standing hi-tech army of 100,000 vs how many guerrillas abandoned by the king and the darth? How embarrassing. sorry I forgot how many ‘contractor’ mercenaries? Obama boo-booed; there is a corollary to be drawn with Vietnam. It, too, was guerrilla warfare where a 10 year old may drop a satchel charge in the Huey and disappear, where the men could hide their weapons and sell a fish to a GI, where the distinction between VC and civilian was invisible. They were willing to take huge losses, and did, while the US had superior forces and planes and napalm and artillery to be called during a firefight because the VC, and NVA, was kicking the collective allied grunts. So the US won the battles and lost the war. The ideology was to get the US out. That was all. The US did not understand the people or the culture, a people and culture willing to wait decades. In Afghanistan, and Uraq, again the allies do not know the people, language, culture and cruises blind, deaf. However, this ideology is far more insidious, yet it does not need any particular office to plan its next move as they are in 60-70 different countries. John McCain et al tell us any projected hopeful date for withdrawal will ‘embolden’ our enemies to wait us out. Are they doing anything differently now? What made the Rovian hate/fear mongering war machine such a lock-step litmus of who is good and right? To his ‘kind’, proper etiquette and protocol is ‘weak’. Wrong, it is proper and correct. His ‘kind’ greets others with Mr Smith and Mr Wesson at the ready. Diplomacy and talk is an intellectual capacity his ‘kind’ lacks in the name of his, and their, own lunacy. Sadly, the exit strategy is a folly, but I am hopeful the Administration truly is considering the gestalt of the situation.