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It's interesting that chatter about the Iraq war has now made a paradigm shift. Most politicians and commentators (including Bill O'Reilly!) are willing to concede that the original invasion was a misguided strategic blunder, and are instead now focussing on the idea that the 'Surge' strategy worked and the US is 'winning' the war.
On the face of it, sure, the violence has decreased somewhat but that's about all you could call a success. The Iraqis are no closer to gaining control of their own country, the war costs the US 10 billion dollars a MONTH and the fact still remains that the fight in Iraq has nothing to do with what happened on September 11 except to poke the hornets nest even further.
Eventually history will show that the whole thing was total folly, but for now we're stuck with John McCain's version of events.
This week's quote is from none other than Sun Tzu's The Art of War and seems particularly relevant given all the talk we're hearing on the campaign trail at the moment.
"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win."
- Sun-Tzu
Yeah. What he said.
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Police State 09.08.08 at 12:58 am
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.St.AugustineSt. Augustine