The Awful Truth
Now that people are getting back to the truth, the awful truth is that perhaps Donald Rumsfeld is not as bad as he seems at running the Pentagon and that maybe the strategy he followed would have been more effective if he had an army to work with.
When the US, in peacetime, had soldiers stationed in Germany to fight off the Russian hordes only 16 years ago, there were 500,000 of them. Today we don't seem to have 500,000 troops and are resorting to the use of reserves and the National Guard to get the number we have (which seems to vary depending on the press conference or release) from 165,000 to 135,000.
The awful truth is that we don't have an army anymore. Moreover, Israel doesn't either. Both have airplanes. Rockets. Missiles. And atomic bombs. Of course none of the latter are able to defeat the kinds of foes that exist in Iraq and Lebanon. Since we can't use our armies we use our airplanes and cruise missiles. When they don't work will we have to resort to the A Bomb? I have a Jewish friend who said if push comes to shove Israel will not fail to use it. What an awful truth.
When the US, in peacetime, had soldiers stationed in Germany to fight off the Russian hordes only 16 years ago, there were 500,000 of them. Today we don't seem to have 500,000 troops and are resorting to the use of reserves and the National Guard to get the number we have (which seems to vary depending on the press conference or release) from 165,000 to 135,000.
The awful truth is that we don't have an army anymore. Moreover, Israel doesn't either. Both have airplanes. Rockets. Missiles. And atomic bombs. Of course none of the latter are able to defeat the kinds of foes that exist in Iraq and Lebanon. Since we can't use our armies we use our airplanes and cruise missiles. When they don't work will we have to resort to the A Bomb? I have a Jewish friend who said if push comes to shove Israel will not fail to use it. What an awful truth.
Posted at 8/23/2006 03:20:00 PM UTC
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