I'm at a conference this week, where we're discussing the state of play in certain aspects of analysis of the current state of play in warfare as conducted by the West these days.
While sitting through a day of briefings, most good, some really tasty, and some hard to sit through, it occured to me we need to update
General Patton's speech to the soldiers of the Third Army - well, a part of it, if he were to deliver it today:
"There is one great thing that you men will all be able to say after this war is over and you are home once again. You may be thankful that twenty years from now when you are sitting by the fireplace with your grandson on your knee and he asks you what you did in the great Global War on Terror, you WON'T have to cough, shift him to the other knee and say, "Well, your your Granddaddy rode with the Great Third Army and a Son-of-a-Goddamned-*** named Georgie Patton! No sir - you can look him in the eye and tell him Granddaddy built a nice sewage treatment plant in Sadr City"
Which isn't, necessarily, especially in an optional war, a wrong answer. Of course, a different answer might be - don't fight optional wars. But
those decisions are, to quote a well known politician, well above my paygrade.
Read the complete post at http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2011/03/the_world_turne.html
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Mar 10 2011, 02:30 AM
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