SFC SKI commented on my post The Objective - Iraq. The SFC makes some good points about the security situation in Iraq. To which I responded:
Thanks so much for the comment!!
You say:
You really can't split Iraq's security problems along internal and external, they are intertwined to a tremendous extent.
Agreed. However, what I was thinking of was more about a division of labor. Americans do primarily border security. Iraqis do mainly internal security.
With the whole job ultimately being handed over to the Iraqis - when they are ready.
As to the spineless in Congress. I think they are one termers. Think of the '72 elections when we elected Nixon (a truly vile man) over his anti-war Democrat rival.
The most important thing to be done in winning this war is that more soldiers like you speak out. You don't even have to blog. Comments on blogs are equally helpful.
BTW I'm sure it is too far above your pay grade, but our war leaders are really letting us down by not getting more news and views of the troops out.
War is 3/4s morale. The DOD and the President are letting the home front down.
The message is simple:
There is a democratically elected government in Iraq under attack by the disgruntled, by Nazi emulating Baathists, and by external forces. This Iraqi government may fall at the next election. We will not let it fall to violence.
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President Nixon had a difficult personality, but he was not a vile man, and as a more-or-less one-term President his accomplishments were remarkable. He successfully turned over the war in Vietnam to the South Vietnamese government, he weakened Soviet communism by opening ties with Red China, and he knew that the State Department and the CIA were gangs of disloyal incompetents. A Nixon administration was much better than a Henry-Wallaceite communist-appeasing McGovern administration -- and the election results showed that the American people at that time did "get it."
ReplyDeleteNixon told Haldeman that pot was no worse than a Martini.
ReplyDeleteSo why did he crank up the war on pot heads? To stick it to his political enemies. Which he also told Haldeman in the same conversation.
He was a vile man. Despite his accomplishments. And yes McGovern would have been worse.