>Subject: War: Then and now
>From: antimulticulture@...
>Date: 6/4/2004 12:43 AM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <03060422.4347@...>
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>War: Then and now
>http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20040603.shtml
>Thomas Sowell
>June 3, 2004
>
> It was refreshing recently to see a front page of the New York Times
>that was not full of editorials disguised as "news" stories,
>undermining the war and the president. However, it was a souvenir
>front page, reprinted from the New York Times of June 6, 1944 --
>reporting on the invasion of Normandy that day.
>
>Things went wrong with that invasion, as things have gone wrong with
>wars as far back as there are any records of wars. Yet no one called
>it a quagmire when American forces were pinned down by German fire on
>Omaha beach and taking heavy casualties. No one called the generals or
>the president incompetent or stupid.
Yer missing the point--in WWII the Germans COULD have thrown the allies back
in the sea. The Axis could have still won the war. In Iraq, the US was EXPECTED
to crush the enemy in no time flat. When it did not happen, charges of
incompetence were made. In most cases, rightly so.
War is not about pussyfooting around. It is to wipe out the enemy. Rummy did
not provide enough men to do it and now the poor soldiers are paying for the
arrogance of the incompetent boobs in DeeCee... |