Counterinsurgency and honour
The original rationale for the invasion of Iraq was to find and destroy Saddam Hussein’s “weapons of mass destruction”.
No weapons.
The next rationale for war was to remove “the totalitarian menace threatening all of Western civilisation”.
The next rationale was to liberate the Iraqi people.
Now all we want to do is exit with honour – an extra 21,500 troops should deliver that honour, shouldn’t it?
Anyway, now that the joint is all but wrecked, isn’t it really the Iraqi’s responsibility to fix things up, even Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats are saying this.
The US is very bad at foreign policy and even worse at undertaking counterinsurgency operations. They’ve never been able to do it. They’ve never bothered to learn how. And the troops’ hearts aren’t in the fight. They’re good at lashing out in fear but awful at close quarters’ fighting.
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I'm thinking that it's more to do with some comments he made a while back. Bout how Bush feels that the spread of the ‘American brand of democracy’ is the will of God, and that he is acting as Gods instrument on earth.
How many lives will he sacrifice to prove that his god was right?
They need to take the President for an evening of electroshock.
Much like Vietnam???
The ultimate sacrifice
Another 21,500 troops for Iraq in the face of overwhelming opposition may just be President Bush honouring those who have already fallen with more dead, writes Mark Coultan.
here's the link...http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/the-ultimate-sacrifice/2007/01/12/1168105177856.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1
The final paragraphs read...
Bob Woodward in his book State of Denial quotes a conversation in 2004 between the former secretary of state Colin Powell and his deputy, Richard Armitage, about Bush's state of mind. "Don't they have moments of self-doubt?" Armitage asked Powell in reference to Iraq. "Has he thought this through? What the President says in effect is, 'We've got to press on in honour of the memory of those who have fallen.' Another way to say that is, 'We've got to have more men fall to honour the memories of those who have already fallen.' "