I'm going to have to read this book before having meaningful comments, but they are of course, correct.
The U.S. is done for, since the enemy has figured out that it can exploit it's strengths to force it to destroy itself.
Nothing is required other than the perversion of basic principle: free men in a free society can exist only so long as they are engaged and have something to lose.
When the citizen and the alien is afforded equal status, the motivating force for this free society disappears.
This is of course the result of stupidity, and is manifest by activist courts, multiculturalism and PC. Wrap it in feel-goodism and there is nothing left to stand against "asymmetrical" warfare.
When we identify the enemy and, rather than destroying him utterly, we have heated debate as to how quickly we must "rebuild" his country the end is definitely near.
The enemy has cost us trillions and trillions, and trillions more in the near future, and instead of seeking restitution, we act nationally as if a free society in the abstract is the end in itself.
It's not much good once it disappears...
My God, an O-10 with common sense! If this guy's an academy grad, I'll be truly amazed.
This article changes all that... Saddam will be taken out as an object lesson to the Chinese, just as Gulf War #1 was an object lesson to the Russians.
China is great as a source of tents from WalMart, even as a source of motherboards and DVD drives. But they delude themselves if they think they can go one on one with our armed forces...
Buying or building aircraft carriers won't be enough...
Furthermore, one cannot help but wish that these two generals had been advising the US government since the 12 trillion dollars that we have invested in national defense and security since WWII didn't seem to help us against the jihadists.
When the article states that the two generals were treated as national heroes in the wake of the 9-11 attacks I wonder what it is trying to convey? If a retired American general had written this book he would be a featured speaker on every TV channel and in every think tank in America. He would be treated as a savant of extraordinary value and probably given a medal for cassandra-valor. The sad question is--why DIDN'T any American generals write this book? And would anyone have listened if he had? Or would he have been cashiered for "hate" crimes against our beloved allies in the struggle against the Russians in Afghanistan?
Our country is so horribly steeped in solipsism, anti-intellectualism and sappy, feel-good, self-esteemism that we appear incapable of the kind of tough-minded, realistic, rational analysis that these two commies produced. That should scare everybody.
Also, there is nothing threatening about foreign foes making plans. That's what every country does--make plans. The REAL threat is a Government that is controlled by a globalist, de-cultured class of People whose main goal is to sell stuff to the billions of potential consumers in China. That is OUR government.
In the meantime, China is becoming more, not less nationalistic. And more masculine while we are politically dominated by a voting block consisting of elderly women and a culture which caters to the lowest and flabbiest form of feminism.
"... They told the paper, "The series of attacks taking place in the United States were very dreary and terrifying, but they must not be viewed from a single perspective” – that is, the U.S. as victims. The colonels then added coldly that the Americans "were victims of U.S. foreign policy.....”
We could use a lot more of that chinese "coldness" and a lot less diversity quilting and self-esteem building in our military, government and culture....
Unless I'm mistaken, even fleas are killed by massive amounts of radiation.
It sounds as though the DNC has an advance copy. The only thing on the list that they haven't been using for the past ten years is the cyber attack.