Losing the troops...

Argghhh!
 ...and it wouldn't matter who was sitting behind the Resolute Desk.

Deebow at Blackfive.

SSG Sitton at Diana West.

For the record - I never signed on to nation-building in the muslim world in the first place.  I was all for "smash their toys and leave a note about not making us come back" diplomacy.  Nation-building is a generations-long proces that has to come from within.  You don't impose it from without, especially not coming from as distinctly different a set of cultures as we do.

And don't point to WWII - we essentially did a "smash their toys" there, and convinced them that they needed to make some changes on their own, which they agreed with - which is very different from was going on in Iraq and in Afghanistan.  You want to argue with me about a "generations long process?"

 Look at what happened when the Warsaw Pact collapsed.  And there had been close to two generations of work there.

Read the complete post at http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2012/09/losing_the_troo.html


Posted Sep 26 2012, 05:44 AM by Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys..