[Chi-townChief]

Well, this jackass Greeley certainly stays on message, you have to say that much for him. Why bin Laden, if indeed he is still around in some hole somewhere, would consider his client in Baghdad getting his sorry ass kicked his "biggest victory yet" is beyond me.

[vladimir998]

Doesn't the headline sound like Greeley is talking about himself?

[MNJohnnie]

Well he got it right. The arrogance of the Democrat Party Leadership , combined with the willing ignorance of mindless political bigots like Mr Greeley, is inviting the USA to a disaster of their own making. Let's hope the voters are smart enough to say "Screw YOU losers."

[Luddite Patent Counsel]

Can somebody please explain how a gadfly, queer pseudo-priest qualifies as a military expert? Just wondering...

[Pikachu_Dad]

He certainly is a jackass.

And he is wrong on a number of points on his history.

1) Monty was not out to 'win the war' by himself.

2) The Germans were certainly not 'falling back'.

3) There were enough britsh paratroopers.

4) The British paratroopers did secure the bridge at Arnheim if the assault had remained on schedule.

5) The entire assault did move too slowly due to a ferocious Germand defense - particularly since they were required to attack down a single road with boggy ground on both ends.

6) Recon had failed to notice (or decided to ignore) the arrival of a German panzer group that was put there for R&R.

7) The almost total loss of the paratroops was not great. However, the attack was not a fiasco in and of itself. A lot of ground was taken.

8) As the movie says - it was a 'Bridge to Far'. A less ambitious advance would have been a total victory - but would have given up the chance for a total breakout.

9) When you are up against a determined and vicious enemy - you are going to take casualties. Often the daring assault, the blitzkreig, achieves a great victory for far fewer losses than anyone could dare imagine. Witness the German blitzes at the start of the war.

[DB]

Well Mr. Greeley, who won WWII?

Wars always have setbacks, lost battles and dark times. War is hell. It isn't some clean theoretical procedure.

Despite the hits we took we pressed on. And that's what it always takes to succeed on the big things in life.

To say the Iraqi "failure" is worse than Vietnam is just plain laughable. 50,000 Americans were dead at the end of the Vietnam war. Millions of Cambodians and Vietnamese paid the ultimate price for our failure. And they paid due to the likes of you.

[uncbob]

Of course just like all liberals he criticizes but offers no alternate plan

[rwa265]

I thought from the headline that the article was about the NYT until I saw (GREELY ALERT).

[syriacus]

Why doesn't Greeley get honest and just do the IRA thing and kneecap our government, our military, and the Iraqi people?

Greeley knows enough about human nature to know men like him are aiding the enemy. Greeley doesn't know much about our fight for freedom.

In 1778, three years into our fight for freedom, one of Washington's top spies, Abraham Woodhull, (a member of the Culper Spy Ring on Long Island) had this to say.

"I cannot bear the thoughts of the war continuing another year, as could wish to see an end of this great distress.

Were I to undertake to give and account of the sad destruction that the enemy makes within these lines I shoul fail. They have no regard to age, sex, Whig or Tory.

I lament to hear [of the] civil dissensions among you [the Congress] at Philadelphia.

I think them very alarming.

It sinks the spirits of our suffering friends here and pleases the enemy.

Cannot the disturbers see that they are working their own ruin.

Is there no remedy to apply.

Better they be cut off from the land of the living than to be suffered to go on."

p95, Washington's Spies, by Alexander Rose...