Posted on 06/17/2017 2:17:51 PM PDT by Lorianne
I saw it. It was based on a real story. Here’s what I saw. A general came in who wanted to do everything possible to win the war. The government, Obama and SOS Clinton, didn’t want to do it. The general embarrassed them. They sabotaged his efforts and finally to get rid of him they embedded a leftist journalist with the general and his staff knowing FULL well the leftist would present the general and his staff in a negative light.
Catch 22?
Yeah. I Always thought that it was ironic that a Jewish novelist wrote about that absurd war against the Nazis.
I’ve been saying for years now, maybe a decade, that we needed to get out after the punitive expedition phase and never started the meals on wheels phase. Two years max, probably 18 months.
You can’t “nation build” unless you’re willing to sit on them and eradicate the underlying ideology as we did to the Nazis and Japanese militarists as we did in the WWII and the postwar era. And we simply are not. Even if we were, I’m not sure nation building is possible in that same sense for all sorts of politically incorrect reasons.
I think we’re all generally on the same page. See my previous.
I agree and I just wanted to extend your remarks.
I recall reading somewhere that the pacification effort in Germany at the end of WWII extended several years beyond the surrender—in the free part of the country. Besides, Germany had a national identity, something the Afghans can’t conceive.
Absolutely so. And we ruled Germany and Japan under military proconsuls for several years, MacArthur in Japan and a succession of folks in Germany, through the late 1940s. We did *NOT* hand these countries over to the State Dept, as we did with Iraq, say.
And it goes well beyond a national (instead of tribal) identity.
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