Carrera said:
There was an American military man on a BBC chat show this morning who would also agree with you. I think the older American military figures totally disagree with these present policies. In fact, what this guy said is that the U.S. is trying to fight an ideological war on terrorism by using traditional territorial strategies - thinking in terms of linking terrorists to one particular country of piece of terrain. So, he said the same as you. And John Kerry talked a lot of sense so it's a real shame people he didn't manage to get his message across (maybe he was too lacklustre).
History is there to be learned from since the Russians got it wrong in Afghanistan, America got it wrong in Vietnam and the Brits and French miscalculated in Suiz. It's not so much that Americans are dumb but I think humanity as a whole tends to be a bit dumb. As Einstein said, human stupidity is infinite.
Kind of ironic, don't you think ?
What's ironic - you say ?
The number of tranatlantic contributors here who calim some sort of military
experience - who have chosen to stay quiet about the tactics (ore more accurately, the lack of startegy) employed by the US Cannon fodder.
Zapper, Iknowbogall, White Luft, Bert/Marion, all claim to have some sort of
attachment to the USA military at one time or another.
None of these illustrious cyberwarriors have had any comment to make about the tactics employed, especially in Fallujah.
Amazes me.
I see Mr.Zarqawi has posted a message on the internet urging people to target the US forces.
So the US flattens Fallujah, yet the leader of the insurgents still has the capacity to drop messages in to cyberspace at will.
There's a pattern developing here : they went in to Afghanistan and the Taliban and Mullah Omar disappear and regroup.. They go in to Afghanistan and Osama Bin Laden disappears and regroups. They go in to Iraq and the insurgents disappear and regroup.
If I was cynical, I'd say that the USA could well want the enemy to remain -
so as to justify all this war.
But that would be cycnical.
Maybe they're just totally incompetent ?
Cynical and incompetent, perhaps ?