Bad Generals

Attaturk links to an article in the Armed Forces Journal wherein a field grade commander calls the general officer corps to task for its moral and professional failures. It’s worth a look.

Any general with any sense knew that stabilizing Iraq would take hundreds of thousand of soldiers, but few of them were willing to say so. Why didn't the administration marshall the resources required? I propose several contributing factors:

• The regime is populated by incompetents.
• The regime has no grasp of reality.
• The regime didn't think it could sell a war involving so many troops and such tremendous costs.
• The regime isn't looking to stabilize Iraq and just wants perpetual war and the gnarly extra powers that come with it.

Seriously, if the consequences of failure in Iraq will be catastrophic, as so many warmongers claim these days, why aren't they suggesting troop levels of 400,000 or more? It's because the warmongers are pulling our cranks and don't really believe what they're saying.