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01/13/2004 Archived Entry: "Why does the College of War hate America?"
Why does the College of War hate America?
A closer read of the College of War's report on Bush's bungling of the War on Terror reveals this:
In addition, the essay goes further than many critics in examining the Bush administration's handling of the war on terrorism.Record's core criticism is that the administration is biting off more than it can chew. He likens the scale of U.S. ambitions in the war on terrorism to Adolf Hitler's overreach in World War II. "A cardinal rule of strategy is to keep your enemies to a manageable number," he writes. "The Germans were defeated in two world wars . . . because their strategic ends outran their available means."
Why doesn't Ed Gillespie have his panties in a twist over this, preferring to continue to slam MoveOn on Blitzer's show today?
Replies: somebody speaks up.
There are a few lessons that the neo cons should have learned from history, if they had ever read any:
1) No matter what your generals tell you, you can’t fight a war on 2 fronts and win. The only reason we were able to do it in ww2 was because Hitler was so entrenched with the Russians that he had already doomed himself (another important rule is: never attack Russia in winter, it has destroyed everyone who has ever tried, from napoleon right through Hitler)
2) The occupying power always loses eventually. The only way to successfully occupy a sovereign nation is to commit genocide, like we did with this country. Period, no if's and's or but's. People will fight you with everything they have till there are none of them left (especially Muslims. After all of the crusades, I don’t see any Christian empire in the Middle East. Last time I checked the Muslims won that one too)
3) No one in history has ever been able to rule Afghanistan, including the Afghanis. You can kill as many of them as you like, and oppress them all you want. They just don’t see history on the same time line that we do, they just go about their lives and fight like they have their entire history.
4) Never tell a megalomaniac that he is bluffing. Even if he is, he will be insulted enough to go through with his bluff (this particular lesson applies mostly to our treatment of North Korea. Unless we want to be involved in a "land war in Asia" which I believe is another military NO-NO)
I think that they should hold elections a full year before the position opens up. That way we can require politicians to take a full year of college level history and civics classes before they become eligible for government service.
Posted by justin @ 01/13/2004 03:14 PM NY
