Sunday, April 24, 2005
Optimism Can Be A Flaw
anyone besides me who thinks that the states is on the verge of loosing any grasp whatsoever that it held in iraq?
perhaps i am wrong but it seems that the states is playing a game of blind man's bluff and wishing away what appears to be massive military & pychological vulnerablilities 'a la vietnam'.
does the united states actually know that it is fighting a war and that to win a war sometimes an army needs to be aggressive and kill the enemy in the ugliest of ways?
time = victory........
unfortunately the insurgents/terrorists seem to have more of it than any policy that 'exist/existed' to fight them.
downfall of civilizations occur when 'they' dont take the 'risks' seriously enough, or worse simply dont understand what they are up against.
the united states seemingly is intent on looking good while chaos reigns and repeating a mantra as if that somehow will make all of the problems go away.
please note, i said when civilizations dont understand. i believe that there are people and organizations that do get the 'point' but on a whole it appears that by and large many people dont quite understand that the 'west' is at genuine risk and this puts all of us in danger.
many of you will not agree with this and i understand this too, believing that others have the desire to destroy you will never make any sense because we live isolated from the abyss of the enemy. we do not understand them because we try to always think the best about things. optimism of the human spirit works against us in this case. this is not an easy notion to simply discard because to be cynical goes against most things we have been taught about.
this is a LARGE problem and if correct it spells huge trouble in many different ways........
as i pointed out long ago, the big question was if the states had the stomach for the fight.
bush and rumsfield seemingly are content with transforming the u.s. army and all of its mechanisms into nothing but a large police force.
can you say MISTAKE?
in other words it appears the u.s. is losing control of the crowd and trying to deal with with the situation as if it were nothing more than a riot caused by hooligans.
and on cue the chicago tribune has a few stories on vietnam today and this one including its impact on the american mind......
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0504240308apr24,1,4149413.story?coll=chi-news-hed
amazing to me that within the article in the tribune speaking about how divided america still is over the issue of vietnam that there was not one mention of iraq and the effects that are being felt now due to this malaise of intent which still lingers........
perhaps i am wrong but it seems that the states is playing a game of blind man's bluff and wishing away what appears to be massive military & pychological vulnerablilities 'a la vietnam'.
does the united states actually know that it is fighting a war and that to win a war sometimes an army needs to be aggressive and kill the enemy in the ugliest of ways?
time = victory........
unfortunately the insurgents/terrorists seem to have more of it than any policy that 'exist/existed' to fight them.
downfall of civilizations occur when 'they' dont take the 'risks' seriously enough, or worse simply dont understand what they are up against.
the united states seemingly is intent on looking good while chaos reigns and repeating a mantra as if that somehow will make all of the problems go away.
please note, i said when civilizations dont understand. i believe that there are people and organizations that do get the 'point' but on a whole it appears that by and large many people dont quite understand that the 'west' is at genuine risk and this puts all of us in danger.
many of you will not agree with this and i understand this too, believing that others have the desire to destroy you will never make any sense because we live isolated from the abyss of the enemy. we do not understand them because we try to always think the best about things. optimism of the human spirit works against us in this case. this is not an easy notion to simply discard because to be cynical goes against most things we have been taught about.
this is a LARGE problem and if correct it spells huge trouble in many different ways........
as i pointed out long ago, the big question was if the states had the stomach for the fight.
bush and rumsfield seemingly are content with transforming the u.s. army and all of its mechanisms into nothing but a large police force.
can you say MISTAKE?
in other words it appears the u.s. is losing control of the crowd and trying to deal with with the situation as if it were nothing more than a riot caused by hooligans.
and on cue the chicago tribune has a few stories on vietnam today and this one including its impact on the american mind......
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0504240308apr24,1,4149413.story?coll=chi-news-hed
amazing to me that within the article in the tribune speaking about how divided america still is over the issue of vietnam that there was not one mention of iraq and the effects that are being felt now due to this malaise of intent which still lingers........
// posted by Zevchi @ 8:15 PM 
