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We are currently 850 days post-9/11. That's a lot of days to go without so much as a lead as to where Osama Bin Ladin currently resides. Maybe we are distracted in Iraq. The Pakistani Army is withdrawing according to the Toronto Star. Maybe they care as little as our administration does. Maybe it's the fact that we have made enemies of the Muslim world:
"Today we reflexively compare Muslim 'masses' to those oppressed under Soviet rule," the report adds. "This is a strategic mistake. There is no yearning-to-be-liberated-by-the-U.S. groundswell among Muslim societies - except to be liberated perhaps from what they see as apostate tyrannies that the U.S. so determinedly promotes and defends."
The above quote is excerpted from Tom Shanker's article in The New York Times about a report released last week by the Department of Defense. It came to the same conclusion I did a long time ago. We are in over our heads in a place we don't belong. Iraq has changed its rule 16 times since 1900.
It held elections twice. The rest have been wars of culture, money and power, not a quest for freedom and picket fences.
Maybe we should have listened to the original GW and avoided foreign entanglements. Save the WW II post because had we minded our own business the Kaiser would have taken Europe and there would not have been a Hitler. In comparison to what we wrought by interfering does the Germans taking over the European continent (again) sound so bad?
Compared to killing people does paying the market rate for oil, and developing more effective transit strategies really suck?
"Today we reflexively compare Muslim 'masses' to those oppressed under Soviet rule," the report adds. "This is a strategic mistake. There is no yearning-to-be-liberated-by-the-U.S. groundswell among Muslim societies - except to be liberated perhaps from what they see as apostate tyrannies that the U.S. so determinedly promotes and defends."
The above quote is excerpted from Tom Shanker's article in The New York Times about a report released last week by the Department of Defense. It came to the same conclusion I did a long time ago. We are in over our heads in a place we don't belong. Iraq has changed its rule 16 times since 1900.
It held elections twice. The rest have been wars of culture, money and power, not a quest for freedom and picket fences.
Maybe we should have listened to the original GW and avoided foreign entanglements. Save the WW II post because had we minded our own business the Kaiser would have taken Europe and there would not have been a Hitler. In comparison to what we wrought by interfering does the Germans taking over the European continent (again) sound so bad?
Compared to killing people does paying the market rate for oil, and developing more effective transit strategies really suck?
posted by Accidental Guru at 1:27 PM
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