America's thinking

[Kitsune]

Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

America is like a building that wants to keep on getting bigger and bigger without looking at it's base.

A large portion of America is currently longing for the past, when international policy was black versus white and wars were fought against uniformed aggressors in organized armies that represented countries that issued declarations. You can hear it in the comparisons to World War II body counts ("3,000 lost isn't nearly as many as...!"), questions of why the public "isn't sacrificing more for the war effort" like "generations past", and even down to the phrase uttered many times after 9/11 that they'd "awakened the sleeping giant". It'd be so much easier if we were dealing with a country that was on a conquest for world domination instead of the complicated religious group/political spiderweb that dates back hundreds of years and why you'll continue to hear phrases like "they hate us for our freedom".

Our army isn't equipped to handle this, nor are our current policies. We can't understand why we can defeat the army and hang the dictator but cannot apply the "Mission Accomplished" label successfully, yet. A public that grew up reading the history of the defeat of the Nazis through manpower and the fall of communism thanks to a weapons race thinks the solution is to keep throwing ammunition into an age-old fire. Our actions fuel this.

America isn't a building trying to grow larger, we just don't understand why we can't fix these complex problems with air superiority and installation of a new political system. We want this, badly, to be good versus evil, not shades of gray.

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Originally Posted by Kitsune

... we just don't understand why we can't fix these complex problems with air superiority and installation of a new political system. We want this, badly, to be good versus evil, not shades of gray.

But we did know how to fix these things. How many Generals were 'retired' because they accurately defined how to fix it? They were opposing a political agenda. Therefore they were retired.

Ask yourself why Rumsfeld had to reach down to a one star general - total experience was command of one division - to find a commander for all forces in Iraq? Sanchez was all he could find? Or other generals knew what the real problem was?

Remember who every general serving in Iraq and now retired have blamed for the entire Iraq mess. This includes the legendary Barry McCafferty who is on the White House 'person non-grata' list for telling the truth.

It was not inevitable. Solutions were known. Even the intelligence was not faulty. Every country adjacent to Iraq, who had spies in Iraq, and who would be most threatened by Iraq, instead, saw no threat. Just another damning fact back in 2002. Why did we ignore that reality?

The Iraq Study Group has a comprehensive set of objectives and benchmarks - the only reasonable solution we have in Iraq. Already, many of those benchmarks should have been achieved. The problem requires solutions that aggressive. Instead the mental midget wants to study this problem for many more months. Why? The solution will either work or fail by end of 2007. Instead, the mental midget needs this thing to continue well after 2008. Deja vue Richard Nixon.

Solution from the Iraq Study Group is a threat to the legacy of George Jr. Don't think for one minute otherwise. This man - just like Nixon - is so corrupt as to send more (and too few) troops only so that a defeat does not occur under his watch.

[xoxoxoBruce]

OR, they flew planes into the Word Trade Center because they failed to blow it up in '93.
Our response was to attack them in Afghanistan, which was just and proper.

Unfortunately that job was bungled by, top management
The bungling continues, but everything will be okey dokey, once they catch Bin Laden.