Here’s a pretty informative summary of our warfare in the Middle East over the past decade. It points out a number of mistakes and makes things look pretty grim at times, yet it strikes a number of optimistic notes too. It’s kind of hard to believe, but maybe it isn’t the fate of the Middle East to constantly be the most awful place imaginable. Maybe.
(hat tip Mike Z. Williamson)
I call BS. Where Islam is (especially the Middle East) the majority religion(cult),that place is by definition, the most awful place imaginable. Regarding the author of the link, ‘it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing’. (In other words, it was too long to bother reading it’s entirety.)
An interesting and informative read. Thanks.
Read your bible, my understanding is that ahead there will be:
– a brief period of false peace where Israel will rebuild the temple
– then the battle of Armageddon (millions of Arabs and much of Israel destroyed)
– then the mount of olives
– then Abrahams children will reunite and Arabs will go to Israel to receive their blessing from the hands of Jesus and the then newly Christian Jews
– then the second coming
– then actual utopia for a thousand years (not the totalitarian utopia that always ends in genocide that communists are always building)
You know how welfare dependence from leftists “compassion” actually destroyed the black community? That applies rather parallel to our babysitting Europe and their military dependence on us. Time to throw those baby birds out of the nest. America cant shoulder the whole worlds burden alone. What it has don’t to Europe is disgusting.
Also Europe is economically dependent on us because they give giant tax discounts to everything their business sell to us but tax increases to everything we sell to them. A “temporary” government program after world wars to help Europe rebuild that of course never went away.
I will read that post when I get the time.
What I know now without reading the linked essay (But with reading The Strongest Tribe) is that Iraq was a victory and we won it for Creighton Abrams. Win one for Creighton in Afghanistan, boys.
I’m remembering the last scene in Dr Strangelove…………..and wishing it could really happen to the Middle East. I’m really not a very nice person but I am eternally tired of these people and their inability to behave in a slightly civilized way.
I don’t want to kill anyone that hasn’t already promised to kill me if they can. I think that’s fair. Really
Give it a miss, Marko, but do read Matterhorn if you haven’t already. Abrams was a genius.
I am amused by analysts who carp about “fighting the last war.” Rarely, if ever, do one of these analysts tell us what the next war will be like, and thus, they assume that tomorrow’s war will be like today’s. Sound familiar? Spoiler alert: tomorrow’s war will not be today’s war.
Unlike the author, I don’t in any way think it’s a done deal that the US would commit forces if Israel were threatened. That’s a huge assumption on his part.
I also do not share the author’s faith in the Egyptian Army as the ultimate stabilizing force there. There’s a huge difference between being an extremely well trained army versus being an army inculcated in the spirit of democracy.
Lastly, I was totally unaware that the US had forces stationed near the Suez from 1973-2003. There were UN forces (without any US troops) stationed there for about 6 years.
Just remember…It’t NOT about the oil!!! It’s not about the oil!!! It’s not about the oil!!
If the military would hire me and pay me a gob of dollars, I could catch Bin Laden! I would get a pack of Ninja’s to rope into one of Justin Bieber’s concerts and kidnap him. Then we would “conceal” a homing devise in his scrotum. Next we jet him off to Pakistan and drop him off near the border with nothing! The Paki’s will look upon the nubile young fresh face and will decide “what a perfect gift for our great and glorious leader”! Then we just track Bieber and when the homing devise starts bouncin’ we start bombin’! Unconventional warfare indeed!
“The US military has lost more than twice as many women in battle since 2002 than any continental European country, including Germany and France, has lost men, even though American women are barred from combat jobs.” Our women are not only better looking, shave their legs and armpits, but they are tougher than European men. All right, European men shave their legs and arm pits too. But let’s not get off track. As an American male, we have made our ladies tough as nails, yet soft as feathers in their personal lives. I’d like to let that 15 and Pregnant be-otch loose on the SAS, see how tough they really are.
Bieber has a scrotum? Who knew?
Can I nominate the words ‘Bieber’ and ‘scrotum’ being seperated by less than 5 words to the banned terms list please? I’ll punch an extra hippy.
cliked on the link. Didn’t read the article.
Too many words, or maybe I just don’t give a damn about the middle east.
Pobably both.