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2013-03-09 Iraq

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Posted by Besoeker 2013-03-09 09:12|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 This report is pretty well put together. But - it operates from the assumption that civil wars are always bad, and should be avoided at all costs. It seems to me that civil wars are sometimes necessary, when one political or sectarian group seeks to establish permanent hegemony over all others. In such cases, it is up to outsiders - such as the USA - to decide with which side of the dispute our best interests lie, and then help that side to prevail. This documentary outlines how we did that - and it appears that we picked the less evil of the two sides, and our side won. Fait accompli.

The choice is between perpetual bloody insurgency, or short and brutal civil war.

The entire report brings to mind this excerpt from Quoteinestigator.com:

In 1981 Richard Grenier published a review of the film Breaker Morant titled The Uniforms That Guard Us in Commentary magazine. The article discussed Orwell and Kipling, and it included two of the quotations listed above. Grenier also used the phrase rough men when describing an attitude advanced by the movie [RGBM]:

It burns with a white rage against societies as a whole, from military leaders and chiefs of state to (more common in our time) comfortable civilians in easy chairs, who send rough men out to serve their interests brutally, murderously (what is war?), and thenwhen circumstances change and in the exquisite safety and fastidiousness of their living rooms they suddenly find these rough mens actions repugnantdisown them.

Finally, the makers of this little film didn't bother to mention that US Army COL James Coffman was awarded the United States Distinguished Service Cross for displaying exceptional valor while fighting in open combat alongside the Police Commandos: http://www.military.com/NewContent/0,13190,Defensewatch_082905_DSC,00.html

Posted by Lone Ranger 2013-03-09 22:06|| 2013-03-09 22:06|| Front Page Top

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