Victory is in sight?
So, according to Gov. Palin, we have almost won the war.
Indeed? With what proof?
How can we possibly win a war when we define our conflict in the wrong way?
Our leaders are still, still, trying to define this conflict in terms of a 19th century territorial-acquisition war. Al-Qaeda has no capitol. It has no tax base. It has no specific chain of command. And it has not gone away. In addition, the Taliban is back as a force. Pakistan is destablized. Iraq is starting to quiet down a bit, yet the wider region is heating up -- indeed, I link up the stupidity in Georgia to this wider conflict. Western China, the Uighar region, is kicking up massively. There are new upticks in northern Africa.
But because we haven't lost any American troops in Baghdad in the last couple of weeks, we are winning...
What a myopic view of "winning".
I pity the shortsighted, small-minded, political tubthumping definition of this conflict.
We are losing simply because we do not ever understand what it is we are fighting.
Indeed? With what proof?
How can we possibly win a war when we define our conflict in the wrong way?
Our leaders are still, still, trying to define this conflict in terms of a 19th century territorial-acquisition war. Al-Qaeda has no capitol. It has no tax base. It has no specific chain of command. And it has not gone away. In addition, the Taliban is back as a force. Pakistan is destablized. Iraq is starting to quiet down a bit, yet the wider region is heating up -- indeed, I link up the stupidity in Georgia to this wider conflict. Western China, the Uighar region, is kicking up massively. There are new upticks in northern Africa.
But because we haven't lost any American troops in Baghdad in the last couple of weeks, we are winning...
What a myopic view of "winning".
I pity the shortsighted, small-minded, political tubthumping definition of this conflict.
We are losing simply because we do not ever understand what it is we are fighting.