Ok, some of this stuff just hurts my brain. To claim that we are war weary is just silliness when the AVERAGE American does not even have to do a damn thing about the war with the exception of hear about an occasional bombing in the country. You don’t have to even sacrifice a Latte in support of the war, and yet you people are exhausted by it. That is pathetic in the most “me” centric way possible, grow a set and realize as adults you have a responsibility to TAKE responsibility for your lives. That does not mean “protecting” volunteers from themselves. US Service members know what we are getting into when we enlist/re-enlist or remain on active duty through Voluntary Indefinite status. All troops can leave the service at the end of their current enlistment if they so choose. I have seen quite a few leave, but I have seen quite a few more remain when given the choice. What does that speak in regards to the character of our armed forces?
The only way we can lose this “war” is to relinquish the field of battle to a morally and physically inferior enemy. Cowardly people that remain outside of the fray should probably remember they are outside of the actual sphere of influence.
As to the idiocy that “we have made mistakes”, when in warfare have there not been mistakes? The battle at little round top in the Civil War was a cacophony of error’s by both sides, the side that had the staying power won out. In WW1, the entire war was a screw up, only through the infusion of American troops was this stalemate ever broken and the “war to end all wars” completed and victory claimed by the allies. WW2 was a massive screw up starting with the attack on Pearl Harbor where intelligence indicating that there was an impending attack was ignored costing us over 2000 lives on that sunday afternoon. The D-Day invasion cost us OVER 9000 dead in the FIRST 24 hours. We would have surrendered if this had gotten out with our media today. The battle of ardenes (AKA Battle of the Bulge) was another major screw up that cost us many precious troops (75,000 give or take with the German’s losing over 80,000). We only won this fight because General Patton force marched his entire division over 100 miles and went straight into battle. His reinforcements broke the enemy’s back and drove them from the field of battle.
Lacking a perspective of history is the most dangerous problem America faces today with regards to educating our future. IF we continue down this road, every little thing will become a tragedy or emergency and no perspective will be maintained. Chicken Little will be the norm.
This enemy is a guerilla force and thus cannot win this fight on the battlefield, they can only win if we participate in our own failure. This organization will be ground into dust if we allow the fight to continue they do not have a insurmountable resource base, but we do have a weak courage base in the US. I wished those of you that had the “courage” to base jump or bungy jump could show some real moral courage and stand behind this war. Your petty political wrangling will induce a much larger tragedy than that going on in Darfur currently if you continue down this foolish road.
http://www3.uakron.edu/worldciv/pascher/che.html
Che said it best (I personally can’t stand this murderer):
“1. Popular forces can win a war against the army.”
“2. It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them.”
We do not need anything more than the support of our nation to win this war, however making claims from the bully pulpit of the media that our war is lost only stand to create a condition on the ground that we are going to lose. Fighting a guerilla insurrection is not about body counts it’s about the support of the nation. Iraqi’s are starting to support the Troops on the ground don’t create a situation where they will change their alliances back against the US and back to Al-Q. The blood is on your hands if you continue down this path.
