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I am sick of the dem's constant whining about going into this war unprepared.
There was a very good article in my newspaper yesterday by; E. Thomas McClanahan, titled;
"Congressional Democrats are next Iraq hurdle".
Almost all of America's wars have been marred by incompetence, strategic blindness, intelligence failures and sheer bungling.
We were caught off guard by Pearl Harbor. We were unprepared for the German offensive that triggered the Battle of the Bulge. The North Korean invasion of the South caught us flat-footed. Later, several hundred thousand Chinese troops slipped into North Korea before our forces were even aware of their presence.
In World War I, we sent poorly trained and equipped troops into the meat grinder of trench warfare. We misjudged Japanese strength on Okinawa. In 1942-43, we ordered thousands of air crews to fly disastrous raids over German cities in broad daylight.
The arrival of the right strategy and the right commander usually comes only after a long series of disasters and foul-ups. In Iraq, the right man turned out to be Gen. David Petraeus, who advocated a counterinsurgency strategy aimed at separating jihadists from the general population.
I particularly like this quote by Victor Davis Hanson;
"Victory isn't achieving all of your objectives. It's achieving more of yours than your enemy does of his."