(September 25, 2014 at 1:59 pm)Chuck Wrote:Wasn't ww2 enough to teach that when politicians take the place of generals you lose?(September 25, 2014 at 12:55 pm)Minimalist Wrote: An army of "soldiers" failed in Iraq....and will fail in Afghanistan.
Well, the soldiers need to be well led too.
When a 4 star soldier who happen to have been the army chief of staff said before congress that a proper war in Iraq requires several hundred thousand soldiers on the ground for years, and an deputy secretary of defence without a single day's military service, to say nothing of having attended any general staff college, laughed condescendingly and said it was "wide of mark" before national television, you knew for certain we were going to lose this war.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
