War about the War
Herbert Meyer writes about the real war today:
Perception One: We’re at War
Perception Two: We’re Reaping What We’ve Sowed
snip…Either way, it is the ongoing war about the war that accounts for where we are today, nearly six years after the 9-11 attacks: We haven’t lost, but we aren’t winning; fewer of us have been killed by terrorists than we had feared would be killed, but we aren’t safe.
While experts disagree about how “the war” is going, there isn’t much disagreement over how the war about the war is going: those who subscribe to Perception Two are pulling ahead.
I fear he is correct.
Technorati Tags: War of civilization, Iraq, Islamists, U.S., Sept. 11th,
Don’t you get it? A change in strategy is not retreat. The US will always have some presence in Iraq even if the majority of American soldiers are redeployed within the region. No one thinks the US will abandon it’s billion dollar embassy and bases with their 10′ thick concrete walls.
You think you know more about war and what the military can accomplish than Colin Powell? Powell said that he spent two and a half hours vainly trying to persuade President Bush not to invade Iraq and believes today’s conflict cannot be resolved by U.S. forces. ‘I tried to avoid this war,’ Powell said at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado. ‘I took him through the consequences of going into an Arab country and becoming the occupiers.’ In terms of the current situation in Iraq, Powell said: “It is not a civil war that can be put down or solved by the armed forces of the United States.”
When will you get it? The Iraq war is now costing $12 BILLION a month, that is $429 million A DAY and what do have to show for it? Defense contractor CEOs pocketing hundreds of millions - that’s what. The reconstruction of Iraq has been a sham. Is this what you support? This waste?
34 defense CEOs have pocketed a combined
total of $984 million, enough to cover the entire wage bill for more than a million Iraqis for a year.
Defense CEO pay was 44 times that of a military general with 20 years of experience. Generals made $174,452 while average defense CEO pay was $7.7 million. Halliburton CEO David Lesar made $26.6 million last year, despite a continuing stream of scandals related to the company’s work in Iraq, the latest being reports that the contractor infected soldiers with contaminated wastewater.
If you cared about the troops, you’d support a winning strategy instead of continuing to support a losing one by a loser president.
Comment by pam — July 10, 2007 @ 12:22 pm
Pam - you spout the same old dried up stats each time you post a comment. I know, this war is “ALL ABOUT OIL!”. Regarding Colin Powell, no I don’t trust him. He’s changed his story depending on what the day happens to be. He also advocated against taking out Saddam back in the original Desert Storm. He also stood by knowing that his best bud Richard Armitage was the one who “leaked” Valerie Plame. He also stood by when Armitage allowed the media to say that his credentials included Armitage having been a Navy SEAL.
What I want to know is why you are so concerned about US Military spending when you are posting from Amsterdam? It’s obvious that the Euro’s spend little if no funds on their military. You are just another Eurolefttard who doesn’t have a cluebat in hell.
Comment by Toni — July 10, 2007 @ 1:02 pm
So let’s get this straight… you don’t trust the military assessments and Colin Powell, a 4-star general decorated 11 times for combat valor but you blindly follow the military strategy of recovered alcoholic cheerleader Bush and 5 deferment Cheney?
Comment by pam — July 10, 2007 @ 2:31 pm
Pam, you just proved Toni’s point in her post.
And the longer all those who are for “redeployment” keep spouting these defeatist points, the more the enemy sees us as weak and the more they will keep at it.
Osama Bin Laden’s words:
“when the people see a strong horse and a weak horse, they naturally gravitate toward the strong horse.”
I’d rather the US be the “strong horse”.
Comment by yankeemom — July 13, 2007 @ 9:01 am