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 ...
Thanks for the ping!
I agree. Reminds me of the time when I worked in the beaurocracy
that so much was going on, I looked at a co-worker who was speaking to me and could only see her lips move---couldn't hear a word she said. My computer overloaded and shut down.
That's what happens when I read a piece like this--talk about mind numbing drugs!
vaudine
lead arsenic, evidently.
not enough though.
Yet one more data point as to why much education today is worse than worthless.
"..It will take at least until the end of April for all these reinforcements to reach the outskirts of Baghdad, and by that time other US positions in the Arab world may have been destroyed. Popular outrage in the Arab world at the US attack on Iraq is building by the day, and pro-American regimes are increasingly at risk. Then American troops must fight their way into Baghdad street by street in the May heat, probably losing a few thousand soldiers in the process. Of course, Iraqi losses will be twenty or fifty or a hundred times as great, and America will still win in the end -- but the real problems start on victory day, because nobody in their right mind would want to occupy Iraq..."
In light of Col. Hackworth's death and his service to the country, should we be affording Dyer the same courtesy? is he better or worse than Dyer?
People are born dumb all the time but you have to go to college to learn true stupidity.
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