Stu-6
06-07-2006, 11:09 AM
The ones who started Iraq also lost it
Published on: 06/05/06
The pithiest analysis I've seen of our occupation of Iraq its epitaph, really comes from the Web site of John Robb, a former Air Force intelligence officer now working as a security and anti-terror consultant.
"The problem," Robb writes at globalguerrillas.typepad.com, "has become bigger than our will to fix it."
That about sums it up. In fact, as public disenchantment grows and revelations of apparent U.S. atrocities aren't going to help and as the Iraqi government proves itself incapable of ruling, the gap between the size of our problem and our will to fix it will grow larger still, just as it did in Vietnam.
And just as with Vietnam, those who pushed hardest for this war will blame its failure on their usual set of villains a traitorous media, critical politicians, etc. who supposedly undercut the national will we needed to fight and win it.
And it will all be nonsense. . .
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/bookman/stories/060506.html
Published on: 06/05/06
The pithiest analysis I've seen of our occupation of Iraq its epitaph, really comes from the Web site of John Robb, a former Air Force intelligence officer now working as a security and anti-terror consultant.
"The problem," Robb writes at globalguerrillas.typepad.com, "has become bigger than our will to fix it."
That about sums it up. In fact, as public disenchantment grows and revelations of apparent U.S. atrocities aren't going to help and as the Iraqi government proves itself incapable of ruling, the gap between the size of our problem and our will to fix it will grow larger still, just as it did in Vietnam.
And just as with Vietnam, those who pushed hardest for this war will blame its failure on their usual set of villains a traitorous media, critical politicians, etc. who supposedly undercut the national will we needed to fight and win it.
And it will all be nonsense. . .
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/bookman/stories/060506.html