Spinning Madness
March 1st, 2007 by Lou
I’m totally opposed to the continuing actions in Iraq on any terms. These efforts are worse than futile and ineffective. Our efforts continue to erode any slim chance for the Iraqi people to secure the county they want and deserve.
American servicemen are paying the highest price for our embarrassing futility. They will continue to go and die for the keen and noble principle that they must go unquestioning when called. They must go even if the only reason is our President, his staff and most of his grand party cling to some thin moronic hope of vindication.
But vindication will never come, and many more will die. More and more will return home injured and broken reminders of our shameful inability to stop the madness. It is our responsibility as Americans to question what the military must not question, or we cheapen the principles our soldiers are dying for.
If we can’t come together to end the carnage, we must at least come to together to ensure that those that go are well equipped, and our madness doesn’t endanger our ability to defend ourselves from very real threats we can all agree on.
Congress must hold the President accountable for his actions. Congress must accept nothing less than plans and goals that keep our military combat ready at all times, in strict proportion to the risks and expenditure of our money and our blood. War is too risky and too costly in too many ways to accept anything less.
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Your take on the Iraq War brought me back to remember Barbara Tuchman’s 1984 book called the March of Folly. The Iraq War II reeks of woodenheadedness that Ms Tuchman illustrates in 4 distinct periods in history; 1. The leaders of Troy bringing in the Trojan horse 2. The Renaissance popes provocation of the Protestant secession 3 The British lose America, and 4 America betrays herself in Viet Nam.
In the Epilogue Ms Tuchman writes ” Aware of the controlling power of ambition, corruption and emotion, it may be that in the search for wiser grovernment we should look for the test of character first”
In the end she quotes John Adams in saying that government is “little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago”