Monday, October 25, 2004

Idiots in charge

It's no wonder that things don't run smoothly. The support for our leaders is lacking in compendence. You would think that the military would be smart enough to compensate for the incompetence of a government that is clueless as to the consequences of their dictates. You would think that even if they're too wimpy to say NO we can't really do this, that they would rise to the challenge and think about the important things, but no, it hasn't worked out this way. Instead we find that the armed forces of America invaded a country, concered it's army and then DUH!
Nobody it seems had any idea what to do next.
perhaps I'm being too harsh? NO It was an invasion of a foreign country. A BIG THING not like Panama or Somilia where we got in and out with little consiquense as to whether it was a success or failure. This is a big one, and it is a big time failure.
Iraq had a huge army but they were poorly equipped and so they ran and hid rather than fight and die. We could have requited them to build a new Iraq but failed to make this crucial choice. We had to be bullies so they decided to steal the resources they could find and use them against us. And there were a lot of weapons to take. We had nowhere near the forces needed to occupy an country as big as Iraq.
So now where are we. There two ways to go. It is clear that we can not hold and control Iraq with out a massive military presence which would make a draft necessary. Or a cut and run (with apologies to the world) and let civil war decide the fate of Iraq.
In no case will anything good come of it.

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