BWAAAHHAAAHAA!
I don't know what's funnier - the mental self-flagellation Steve has decided to give himself, or the ignorance of the term "dirty Sanchez."
HAHAHAHAHAHA! Made my afternoon, thanks much...
BWAAAHHAAAHAA!
I don't know what's funnier - the mental self-flagellation Steve has decided to give himself, or the ignorance of the term "dirty Sanchez."
HAHAHAHAHAHA! Made my afternoon, thanks much...
"Speak English! said the Eaglet. "I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and what's more, I don't believe you do either!"
The Eaglet from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland
Well, I deem somethings as a virtue and not knowing what that was definitely counts among them.
Kat-Missouri
and I'm not at all sure just how much better off I am now that I do know...
I didn't know, and it is WAY more information than I needed.
John Wolfsberger, Jr.
An unruffled person with some useful skills.
Something about listening to someone directly that adds value to any opinions you have of them. I know what I expect to hear but I hope I'm wrong. We'll see
Any man can destroy that which is around him, The rare man is he who can find beauty even in the darkest hours
Cogitationis poenam nemo patitur
Sorry about that, Kat et al, I treasured my sadly departed naivete also
Check out the Amazon reivews of this dog.
He's clearly supporting someone's biases.Lt Gen Sanchez has a lot of moral courage to write this book. Every page you read brings you to respect him more.
So what do y'all think his agenda is, aside from trying to avoid being crucified in the history books?
Wouldn't that be refreshing? "I f*ed up royally, here's why." Now where is Steve's image of hell freezing over?
Honestly, doesn't he realize he could save a whole lot of dignity just by doing that? Does he think people actually will buy into his version of what happened? Or do we think he (or Feith) himself actually believes this apologetic swill?
I'm glad Steve's reading it and not me, because these things generally make my blood pressure resemble that of somebody four times my age. . .I was having palpitations while reading Fiasco. . .
Regards,
Matt
"Give a good leader very little and he will succeed. Give a mediocrity a great deal and he will fail." - General George C. Marshall
Ah, the Wesley Clark/Merrill McPeak approach to dubious military achievement. One of the Amazon reviewers compared Sanchez to Clark, and I agreed with the comparison, especially in light of the content of "Waging Modern War" by Clark.--Possible position in Democratic administration
That book gave an interesting spin to. It only made me less forgiving of Clark's choice to place the interest of the EU ahead of U.S. interests.listening to someone directly... adds value to any opinions you have of them
I don't know. It's not easy being in a no win situation. In the ad business clients sometimes insist that you do something stupid that you know isn't going to work. Telling them they're stupid doesn't work out too well. Usually, we muddle through trying to do the best we can and when it doesn't work the client fires us for doing what they asked.
Petraeus will probably be writing a book some day about why COIN didn't produce victory either.
I'm not trying to be antagonistic, but for sake of discussion how do you feel about NATO forces that put European interests above American interests in Afghanistan?
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