War without end
AntiWar.Com
by Tom Engelhardt and Michael Schwartz
12/14/06
It turns out, of course, that when you control both sides of a war game or the range of opinion on a panel, you are assured of the results you're going to get. The problem comes when you only control one side of a situation; and when, as American commanders learned in the early days of the Korean War and again in Vietnam, whether due to racism or imperial blindness, you also discount and disrespect your enemies. Unfortunately for the Bush administration, it turned out that, while you could fix the war games and the intelligence, you couldn't be assured of fixing reality itself, which has a tendency to remain obdurately, passionately, irascibly unconquerable...
http://www.antiwar.com/engelhardt/?articleid=10159
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Engelhardt
by Tom Engelhardt and Michael Schwartz
12/14/06
It turns out, of course, that when you control both sides of a war game or the range of opinion on a panel, you are assured of the results you're going to get. The problem comes when you only control one side of a situation; and when, as American commanders learned in the early days of the Korean War and again in Vietnam, whether due to racism or imperial blindness, you also discount and disrespect your enemies. Unfortunately for the Bush administration, it turned out that, while you could fix the war games and the intelligence, you couldn't be assured of fixing reality itself, which has a tendency to remain obdurately, passionately, irascibly unconquerable...
http://www.antiwar.com/engelhardt/?articleid=10159
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Engelhardt
rudkla - 15. Dez, 14:38
