absolutely hilarious reading. Although a tad aggressive
http://www.exile.ru/158/war_nerd.html
This guy is amazingly good fun to read. I don't agree with everything he says, in fact most of it I disagree with, but if you can put your beliefs on a shelf somewhere, and go take a look. Quite good.
These guys are actually insane, you realize that? Step back and look at the situation. We want to take Iraq. We've beaten them, stomped them, once already. Since then, their army is even weaker and more gutless than it was then. They're terrified of us. They're illiterate peasants who surrendered to NEWS CREWS in the last war.
And we are the world's only superpower; its biggest economy; a balanced military force, totally dominant in sea, land and air; fighting to avenge a tragedy that gave us the sympathy of the whole world; and we control the media of the whole world so thoroughly that we could suppress any war reporting we didn't happen to like.
That's how the balance sheet looks. And with advantages like that, we need 18 months to attack? This is what I call real insanity, Pentagon memo-culture gone crazy, strangling the sort of spirit that won the Falklands and Entebbe.
All in all he's vastly more amusing than the national media when covering war in general. Not quite as amusing as the Iraqi information minister tho.
This guy is amazingly good fun to read. I don't agree with everything he says, in fact most of it I disagree with, but if you can put your beliefs on a shelf somewhere, and go take a look. Quite good.
These guys are actually insane, you realize that? Step back and look at the situation. We want to take Iraq. We've beaten them, stomped them, once already. Since then, their army is even weaker and more gutless than it was then. They're terrified of us. They're illiterate peasants who surrendered to NEWS CREWS in the last war.
And we are the world's only superpower; its biggest economy; a balanced military force, totally dominant in sea, land and air; fighting to avenge a tragedy that gave us the sympathy of the whole world; and we control the media of the whole world so thoroughly that we could suppress any war reporting we didn't happen to like.
That's how the balance sheet looks. And with advantages like that, we need 18 months to attack? This is what I call real insanity, Pentagon memo-culture gone crazy, strangling the sort of spirit that won the Falklands and Entebbe.
All in all he's vastly more amusing than the national media when covering war in general. Not quite as amusing as the Iraqi information minister tho.