Why the US will never win another war
Reading these excerpts from US veterans from the latest war in Iraq, it's clear to see why the US will never win another war. Overwhelming use of force seems to be their only strategy. After that, it's a case of treat the local population - that you have come to save - as vermin lower than you on the evolutionary ladder, humiliate them, punish them at random, violate their homes, their culture.
No, the US will never win another war, because all it understands is firepower, not the more subtle ways in which to get a local population on your side. They have done nothing right in Iraq, and everything completely wrong. For this, they are paying the price, with 4,000+ young soldiers dead, and thousands more without arms and legs, and hundreds of thousands more who, like the Vietnam generation, will suffer more than most with mental problems, crime and imprisonment. It is interesting to note that more US soldiers who died in Vietnam - 58,000 - have committed suicide since, unable to live with what they did. Here, in Iraq, is another remorseless timebomb waiting to happen.
On top of this is the astonishing rise in worldwide terrorism, and there's another irony there, that the US wanted to take the war to Iraq or face it on its doorstep. Well, it has both, and so, unfortunately, do the rest of us.
It is ironic that the US military has such a high standing in its own country, for these testimonies prove that they do not deserve such praise. They appear trigger happy fools, uncomprehending of their task, frightened, incompetent and badly led - especially the latter; even the best soldiers if not given specific instructions for a task will fail. They are failing abysmally, and everything is out there in the world for all to see. Can you now see more clearly where all the hatred is from? I certainly can.
'A dead Iraqi is just another dead Iraqi... You know, so what?' - Independent Online Edition > Americas
No, the US will never win another war, because all it understands is firepower, not the more subtle ways in which to get a local population on your side. They have done nothing right in Iraq, and everything completely wrong. For this, they are paying the price, with 4,000+ young soldiers dead, and thousands more without arms and legs, and hundreds of thousands more who, like the Vietnam generation, will suffer more than most with mental problems, crime and imprisonment. It is interesting to note that more US soldiers who died in Vietnam - 58,000 - have committed suicide since, unable to live with what they did. Here, in Iraq, is another remorseless timebomb waiting to happen.
On top of this is the astonishing rise in worldwide terrorism, and there's another irony there, that the US wanted to take the war to Iraq or face it on its doorstep. Well, it has both, and so, unfortunately, do the rest of us.
It is ironic that the US military has such a high standing in its own country, for these testimonies prove that they do not deserve such praise. They appear trigger happy fools, uncomprehending of their task, frightened, incompetent and badly led - especially the latter; even the best soldiers if not given specific instructions for a task will fail. They are failing abysmally, and everything is out there in the world for all to see. Can you now see more clearly where all the hatred is from? I certainly can.
'A dead Iraqi is just another dead Iraqi... You know, so what?' - Independent Online Edition > Americas
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