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2006-06-22 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-06-22 05:36|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I don't see how anyone can look at the military without being truly amazed at the complexity of their mission and how well they perform it. In Iraq and Afghanistan they are:
1. Waging a war against a very difficult enemy and thus defending our nation,
2. Nation-building,
3. Infra-structure building (developing schools, hospitals, electrical grid, water-supply, and sewage, etc.)
4. Diplomacy.
God bless them and protect them!

Posted by JohnQC 2006-06-22 10:52|| 2006-06-22 10:52|| Front Page Top

#2 I think they're doing well on point 1 but it is buried in negative reporting.
Point 3 is very much under-reported as well, I've only seen it in an analysis by a swiss officer circa 2004-2005, and yet the efforts and achievement are huge.
On point 4, I'd say it would be mostly intestine diplomacy, IE dealing with the shifting and bizantine nature of iraqi society.
And on point 2, I'm pessimistic, not because they can't do it, but because I really have no faith at all in the iraqi ability to form a coherent Nation-State, but then again, it is just an uneducated guess, and because I'm gloomy.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-06-22 11:04|| 2006-06-22 11:04|| Front Page Top

#3 The left has to live by these myths cause their own world of failures can't stand another organization that is effective. Power and responsibility usually finds competent handlers. Powermongers can't stand people who actually deliver.

When you stereotype blacks, youre racist. When you stereotype women, youre sexist. When you stereotype the troops, youre a lefty.

Posted by Whinetle Grush9406 2006-06-22 11:36|| 2006-06-22 11:36|| Front Page Top

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