[lit-ideas] Re: The US Army in mutiny?
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 10:55:55 -0700
I wondered if anyone was going to take any of this seriously and thought to
myself, surely not. Surely everyone will remember that Rumsfeld was giving
the task of revamping the military, ending the pork-barrel-like weapon
systems that we would never need unless we were going to fight another
Soviet Russia, learning the lessons from Vietnam, namely that we had to use
small, fast units rather than slow-moving tank-like units that guerillas
could easily avoid. And from the earliest days of Rumsfeld's Secretariat,
we heard that the old timers hated him, wanted to continue doing things the
way they had always done them, and hated his changes. Now some of these
that have all along hated him, such as Zinni, are making their hatred more
public. I say more public because anyone interested was aware of this
hatred. So imagine the curl of my lip when some Liberal Journalists decide
this is something new, a brand new revelation, something the result of long
years of Rumsfeld mismanagement. Surely no one was going to fall for that.
. . I thought naively.
Lawrence
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The US military is beginning to rebel against Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld.
Richard Holbrooke, former US ambassador to the UN, writes:
"First, it is clear that the retired generals -- six so far, with more sure
to come -- are
speaking for their former colleagues, friends and subordinates who are still
inside."
"These are career men, each with more than 30 years in service, who swore
after Vietnam
that, as Colin Powell wrote in his memoirs, "when our turn came to call the
shots, we would
not quietly acquiesce in half-hearted warfare for half-baked reasons." Yet,
as Newbold
admits, it did happen again. In the public comments of the retired generals
one can hear a
faint sense of guilt that, having been taught as young officers that the
Vietnam-era
generals failed to stand up to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and
President Lyndon
Johnson, they did the same thing."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/14/AR2006041401
451.html
This is extremely dangerous. Bush about to start a nuclear war. The military
will not
participate. What will happen when he gives orders to attack? Will they
refuse? Or will they
arrest him?
Bush, who talks about creating democracies in the Arab world, is about to
destroy democracy
in America.
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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