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Originally Posted by RDixon
Where to begin....
What has been learned?
No WMDs.
No ties to 9 / 11.
No ties to Bin Laden.
No cakewalks.
No Flowers.
No slam dunks.
No Iraqi oil money to pay for the mess.
And foremost, absolutely no justification for going to war with Iraq, yet here we are in a ever growing mess.
Hell, this military is so damned ignorant, they can't even do a coverup and get it right.
Incompetence at the top and the trickle down theory.
As for as how it's going in Iraq:
Same way things were going in Nam in '68.
Politicians with no military experience making "decisions" on how the war is prosecuted and looking for some one or something to blame other than themselves when all their "decisions" prove to be disasterously wrong.
Why is Rumsfeld still the Sec Def?
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We learn as much from our mistakes as from our successes. Either way we are victorious, and only by learning nothing could we characterize this war as a faillure.
And why is Rumsfeld still the secretary of defense? Because he is a civilian commander, and he works for a civilian commander in chief. This is, after all, how the framers of the Constitution wanted it to be. Rumsfeld also happens to be particularly good at keeping the ambitions of careerists colonels and generals from mucking things up.