>>1 Stuff like this makes life easier to go through. The left sucks at a lot of things but they can surprise you. So much for latte-sipping baby-boomers undermining morale - "Oh gee the people in charge gave responsibility of my equipment to close friends or highest bidders to save money and ignored all post-invasion planning that could have improved my odds and allowed me to be home with my loved ones but what really demoralizes me is all that defeatist-talk about Haditha - they are soooo mean for bringing that up!"
I realise English isn't your first language, but stick to the point please. I'm still trying to figure out what that last run-on sentence is supposed to mean.
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Anonymous2006-10-29 7:44
I second >>4 regarding >>3 >>3 has something to say, but they didn't say it very well. >>3, I beseach thee to impart thyne wisdom unto uns once more, in a form which more men other than the Lord wurdest understand!
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Xel2006-10-29 9:55
Well. I was remarking how many who are anti-left by default remark that rejecting the correctness of some of the Iraq invasion's different facets (it is not a war since war has never been declared - anyone who knows anything about warfare can tell you that not declaring war is a big mistake) and pointing out that the entire operation may be of little value to American interests could lessen troop morale and thus increase the so-called friction (a term coined by distinguished Prussian war philosopher Carl von Clausewitz, referring to the gulf between theory and practice, i.e. how many small practical mistakes, decreased morale and logistical inconsistencies in warfare can accumulate into a serious hampering of the war effort).
However, they never remark on how the lack of a post-invasion plan (benchmarks, I guess it's called now) and the dubious decisions to outsource many parts of the construction/logistics section of the invasion to wasteful corporations (this time the market produced more red tape than neoliberals could possibly fathom) is a far more serious endangering factor for American and British troops.
Also, the cheap Kuwait-based corporation assigned to build the American embassy in Baghdad treats the employees like slaves, while the freedom-loving executive branch complains about the Lancet study and Malkin laughs at Michael J. Fox for showing what happens when you have a somewhat common disease and can't afford expensive meds.