Posted on 02/09/2005 10:51:50 AM PST by gopwinsin04
'The United States needs to lose this war in Iraq as soon as possible. Even more urgently, the whole world needs the United States to lose the war in Iraq.'
Author Gwynne Dyer explains how we havent grasped that the world has changed, that we aren't living in our old superpower world anymore, one in which we are the leader of the forces of light against the evil dark powers of communism.
Nor are we, in fact, even a military superpower in the way we like to think we are; in reality, our military machine can only be used by weak countries.
As he notes, 'War with a serious opponent would lead to a level of American casualties that the US public would not tolerate for long.
Dr. Dyer was born during World War II and has served in the US Navy as well as Canada and Great Britain's. He has university degrees from all three countries and a Ph.D. in miliary and Middle Eastern history.
(Excerpt) Read more at metrotimes.com ...
Enemy of our land, ping.
My guess is the good Dr. Dyer opposed our efforts to topple the USSR as well. Just another idiot liberal.
"we aren't living in our old superpower world anymore, one in which we are the leader of the forces of light against the evil dark powers of communism."
So what happened on 9/11 wasn't the work of an 'evil dark power'?
WHAT!PING!
The left = The Enemy Within™.
What the frack are the libs putting in the koolaid?!
Yes yes, we American's are all soft, our military's a paper tiger... yadda yadda yadda...
Sorry my friend, but America is only soft when a socialist domocrat is in the White House.. in my life twice this has happened and in both instances America was abused on the world stage by pathetically small dictators and thugs, not due to the inability or unwillingness of american's to take on a long fight, but due to leaders who didn't have the courage or conviction to do what was right.
And as to a paper tiger... please, any nation of the world (since most live under our umbrella of protection anyway... BRING IT.
This sounds like Howard Dean's message.
Those evil imperialists are going to take over the world with their free election and democracy plans!
What does that sentence mean? Why would weak countries be using our military machine? What, do they rent it?
bump for later
Prob a typo, should be 'on weak countries..'
He also thinks global warming is going to kill us all! The nut tree drops another...
Okay. I call him a major league esshole. Whoops, that's a typo.
This sounds like Howard Dean's 2008 campaign platform!
No one who intends to be taken seriously would say something so ridiulous.
I wish he would have said this towards the beginning of the article, then I wouldn't have read the whole stupid thing.
Is Dr. Dyer employed by the University of Colorado?
Author Gwynne Dyer hasn't grasped that the world has changed; that we ARE the sole superpower in the world, one in which we ARE the leader of the forces of light against the evil dark powers of Islamofacism.
I thought that's what they said about Afganistan where the Russians were thrown out on their ear. How could we possibly think we could succeed where they couldn't. Then it was Iraq think of all the tanks and Elite Republican Guards, why we won't have a chance. The desert sands will run with American blood. Yada yada yada, blah, blah, blah.
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