Originally posted by Dago
I am kind of curious on what knowledge source you base those statements?
Just curious, but are you over there, been over there, or have anyone close to you over there telling you what is going on, feeding you a complete picture? I dont know your background, maybe you are a military guy, I dont know.
I am only asking because I have nothing much more to go on than the slanted, incomplete picture that CNN and that ilk is providing, and I dont trust them. Read a book written by any quality war coorespondant and you will quickly realize how crappy most war coverage is, and how little the "reporters" actually bother to learn.
Then, toss in the liberal bias that too often slants a story or paints a very incomplete one, both at the reporter level, then in the network offices, and you will understand why I feel I cant judge really how the war is going from my vantage point in the USA.
dago
Hi Dago.. the Mission Lost.. the Message is Lost statement derives around the way we currently conduct the misson deployments.. walking patrols are just targets. Roving mech patrols are targets. Putting our kids in the line of fire to simply draw fire or triiger IED's is assinine.
The message lost dervies around the methods used to get in there to begin with. Like everybody else I believed the WMD ploy. Since then we've found that the suff is no longer in accountable hands.. we let it get away. Now, from the perspective of our average citizen and in the eyes of the world we are did an invasion on false pretenses. Wrong message.. hence 'message is lost'.
I favor an all-out approach to war fighting.. playing the 'occupier' in a hostile nation is not a winnable situation. On that basis I have some personal experience from a time and place where such polices failed the men asked to do the same job in pretty much the same way.
Lastly, reagrding the situtaion on the ground in Iraq these are just my opinions, not backed by anything other than what I see with my wide flat bellybutton glued to the couch watching what the media and the governemnt will let me see on the babble boxes.
