Easy out
The American Conservative
by Gregory Cochran
09/24/07
Politicians, for the most part, have accepted statements about withdrawal requiring anywhere from one to two years. They want to be ‘responsible’ — that’ll be the day. Some may have calculated that slow withdrawal might better disguise defeat and thus be more politically palatable, but I don’t think many are that Machiavellian. I think instead that, with a few honorable exceptions, they’re profoundly ignorant of war and thus have to blindly accept anything the professional military says. That ignorance is, of course, one of the reasons we got into this mess in the first place. That goes double for columnists: in pundit-land, a military expert is someone who thinks that the phalanx is cutting-edge technology. The bottom line is that we can get troops and war-fighting equipment out of Iraq rapidly and relatively safely, certainly in less than six months, probably in three...
http://www.amconmag.com/2007/2007_09_24/cover.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=withdrawal+Iraq
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gregory+Cochran
by Gregory Cochran
09/24/07
Politicians, for the most part, have accepted statements about withdrawal requiring anywhere from one to two years. They want to be ‘responsible’ — that’ll be the day. Some may have calculated that slow withdrawal might better disguise defeat and thus be more politically palatable, but I don’t think many are that Machiavellian. I think instead that, with a few honorable exceptions, they’re profoundly ignorant of war and thus have to blindly accept anything the professional military says. That ignorance is, of course, one of the reasons we got into this mess in the first place. That goes double for columnists: in pundit-land, a military expert is someone who thinks that the phalanx is cutting-edge technology. The bottom line is that we can get troops and war-fighting equipment out of Iraq rapidly and relatively safely, certainly in less than six months, probably in three...
http://www.amconmag.com/2007/2007_09_24/cover.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=withdrawal+Iraq
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gregory+Cochran
rudkla - 26. Sep, 15:01
