Friday, February 1, 2008

Indeed.

"For a second time in a generation, we are at war, and a political leadership has practiced deception to trick the country a war in Iraq, which we should not have fought and will not ultimately win. The campaign in Afghanistan might have been successful at some minimal level had it not been horribly mismanaged; at the moment, we are distinctly not winning the Afghan conflict and may actually be in danger of losing. The current administration is flirting with a war against the Islamic Republic of Iran, and has contemplated sending troops to Pakistan whilst fighting a proxy war in Somalia. When it comes to military leadership, the current government of the United States is feckless, indifferent to the welfare of our service personnel, and incompetent, relentlessly convinced that there are military solutions to problems that can either only be solved politically, or cannot be solved at all. "
Richard O. Collin, February 1st, 2008

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