US Army In Jeopardy In Iraq - By Gary Hart

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Gary Hart

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03.12.2006
US Army In Jeopardy In Iraq

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The United States lost one war not too long ago in Vietnam. Conditions are taking shape that could result in the same outcome in Iraq. Not to plan now for this apocalyptic possibility would be tantamount to criminal neglect on the part of our political and military leadership.

A major part of the dilemma we have created is the result of failure to know the history and complex culture of Iraq. As we refused to learn from the French experience in Indochina, we also failed to learn from the British experience in Iraq. We are on the cusp of religion and antique hatred overtaking whatever latent instincts toward democracy we may have relied on or tried to instill. We face the reemergence of 11th-century Assassins and 17th-century ethnic fundamentalism arising to replace a century of ideology -- imperialism, fascism, and communism.

The character of warfare and violence is being transformed. The warfare of the future is not World War II, or even Korea or Vietnam. It is Mogadishu and Fallujah -- low-intensity conflict among tribes, clans, and gangs. We are not prepared for that kind of warfare.

The United States is in danger of finding combat forces trapped in a civil war that they cannot prevent, control, or win.

America's army is in danger, and that danger is possibly just around the corner.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-hart/us-army-in-jeopardy-in-ir_b_17188.html

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1. junior has probably created the worse case scenario in

the Middle East yet to come.

Hart has it right we haven't learned a goddamn thing from the French or the British.

[mediaman007]

2. Since when do we need artillary? I can't believe that we

have units of artillary forces in Iraq. When was the last war that featured big guns shooting at each other. Maybe Korea?

Hart is right...no country in their right mind will line up against us. We should have learned that in the Revolutionary War!

[alfredo]

3. bush Inc put ideology above reality. They were so sure of the

rightness of their position, they made no plan B. Now they refuse to alter course because they staked everything on their ideology.