Progress in the GWOT?

[nhboy]

"More than seven years after 9-11, it ought to be clear from (1) the senseless destruction of Iraq, (2) the deteriorating war in Afghanistan, and (3) the increasing potential for chaos in nuclear-armed Pakistan, that George II has gomered up the so-called war on terror (WOT).

A cold assessment of the motives of our terrorist adversaries ought to have been the basis for our strategy, but in this regard, the American people have been fed only mindless slogans-like the terrorists are evil, they attacked us because they hate our freedoms, they hate our way of life, they kill innocents, they are Islamofascists (whatever that is) out to conquer the world, you are either with us or against us, etc. This rhetoric is not what some call “actionable” information, but it plays well the Hall of Mirrors that is Versailles on the Potomac."

Progress in the GWOT? « Defense and the National Interest

[ImnoMensa]

After all Saddam was such a nice guy. Why did we bother him? He only caused a million or so deaths with his Iraq-Iran war, a few thousand more with his attempted takeover of Kuwait, he was only trying to buy or build a nuclear bomb, and merely murdering a few thousand Iraqui's a year with his secret poilce. Watching a few torture movies while eating his dinner ,cutting off heads at random and gassing a few thousand of his fellow countrymen for the fun of it. He ran off and killed a few thousand of the people who lived in the swamps and caused an ecological disaster , but he was really a nice guy.

NH boy wishes we had him back.