Giftzwerg
12/17/2009 11:53:00 AM
In article <2d8bd635-53c7-42da-b2a4-e0d9baed0562
@d21g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>, eddysterckx@hotmail.com says...
> > True enough, but in the current context, the moment the word "Bush"
> > appears in the thread, any opportunity to discuss a military aspect of
> > Iraq or Afghanistan collapses into a worthless morass of lefty talking-
> > points.
> >
> > It was the same with Vietnam for years. Only in the last decade or so
> > has it been possible to discuss the US war effort without a lot of
> > pointless blabber about "Johnson!" and "Nixon!"
>
> So it's a time/distance thing. Ok, we'll talk about the finer points
> of the diversionary tactics used at Fallujah in 2030 :)
Don't get me wrong, I don't mind talking about such things *now*. But
then I'm not interested in using a discussion of, say, the failure of
"Deep Strike" attack helicopter tactics in the 2003 invasion as a
jumping-off point for Yet Another Diatribe About Abu Ghraib(tm).
In other words, you can certainly have such a thread with *me*, but I
doubt you'll get very far without some hindsight-puffed idiotarian
bleating about, "The Sixteen Words."
> > I'm not as impressed by Powell as I might be. He was a little too
> > "finger in the wind" during both the original Gulf War and the post-9/11
> > regime change effort. And I always had the sneaking suspicion that he
> > was one of those generals who thought that the best way to have a strong
> > military was never to use it.
>
> .. or only when really necessary.
>
> "War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we
> should have a purpose that our people understand and support"
And *already* we teeter on the edge of the political abyss, as some
moonbat reads this quote, his fingers already twitching out on his
keyboard the opening stanzas of that dreary, oft-sung opera entitled,
"Bush's Illegal, Unnecessary War Against Peace Islam and Harmless,
Grandfatherly Saddam (Whose Hand Rumsfeld Once Shook!!!!)!"
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