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The title is all that's really needed. It sums up a story of frustration, near-futility and desperately sought peace in a land that desires anything but calm and tranquility.
The military cannot in any way be blamed for this. Their lack of success is a glaring indictment of political failure on a grand scale. Certainly not just republican mistakes alone but also the infusion of liberal PC mentality into a conflict with opponents who scruple at absolutely nothing. The idiocy of such a mismatched set of objectives would be laughable were it not for the fact that coalition lives have been lost as a result.
One merely need examine the massive scale of retaliation used to demoralize and defeat our enemies towards the end of WWII to know what even now remains missing from this current conflict. It is tragic testimony to the unforgivable impermanence of historic memory in a modern society blessed with every form of media and recording device imaginable short of an actual time machine.
Yes, Vietnam lasted longer, and it too was a conflict hogtied by the exact same sort of political ineptitude we are seeing in Iraq. In an irony of egregious proportions, the liberals who have infected our government with PC moral relativism and equivalency simultaneously cry out "quagmire" when it is they themselves bogging down the issue with their morass of irreconcilable demands. One cannot be both delicate and militarily successful, especially against a brutal enemy who thinks nothing of sacrificing innocent life.
We must relearn the lessons of The War to End All Wars. When confronted with a foe who does not flinch at the most barbaric forms of slaughter and mayhem, such gruesome tactics must be brought to their door and doubly repaid. We no more belong in Iraq at this late date than we would have in a war torn 1948 Europe. |