GI Special 4F18: Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin
Thomas F. Barton
"The Degradation Of U.S. Forces In Iraq Is A Direct Consequence Of The Derangement Of Political Leadership In Washington""Rumsfeld Is Incapable Of Telling The President That There Is No Battle, No Campaign, That Can Win The War"Jeffrey Record, a prominent strategist at a U.S. military war college, told me: "Perhaps worse still, conventional wisdom is dangerously narcissistic. It completely ignores the enemy, assuming that what we do determines success or failure. It assumes that only the United States can defeat the United States, an outlook that set the United States up for failure in Vietnam and for surprise in Iraq."
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"The Degradation Of U.S. Forces In Iraq Is A Direct Consequence Of The Derangement Of Political Leadership In Washington""Rumsfeld Is Incapable Of Telling The President That There Is No Battle, No Campaign, That Can Win The War"Jeffrey Record, a prominent strategist at a U.S. military war college, told me: "Perhaps worse still, conventional wisdom is dangerously narcissistic. It completely ignores the enemy, assuming that what we do determines success or failure. It assumes that only the United States can defeat the United States, an outlook that set the United States up for failure in Vietnam and for surprise in Iraq."
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posted by Kangaroo Brisbane Australia at 7:53 AM
3 Comments:
good stuff.
i loved this when i heard it today...
“few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the state has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied.”
arthur miller
Dont know where the hell Christy is Carol, have not been able to get in touch with her at all, darn it all, starting to worry.
Christy is on the DCP blog now...
btw, hi Carol!
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