Why the U.S. Military is Doomed to Fail in Afghanistan and Iraq
Little details tell the story. According to the independent military newspaper Stars and Stripes, more than six years after sending its Stryker armored vehicles into desert combat the U.S. Army has realized that it's better to paint them tan than the standard Army green. You see, a big green vehicle in a desert environment stands out. It makes a fine target. Whereas a big tan vehicle is harder to see, harder to shoot at. Whatever failure(s) of organizational intelligence led to the improper paint it's reasonable to assume that such deficits are the rule, not the exception. And a military that has its priorities so chronically fouled up cannot be expected ever to win any kind of war, let alone a complex counter-insurgency.
Posted by George Kenney on October 27, 2009 10:33 AM 
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Good. Who in his right mind would want the US military to "win" in Afghanistan?
The whole imperial strategy to encircle Russia's "soft lower belly," as Churchill put it, as well as to establish an entry point into China, to protect and ensure the control of "our" oil and gas in their countries, is doomed to failure. And to boot, the whole thing is greased with countless dollars from the heroin trade. The US is still acting out the Rockefeller-Brzezinski dream of the "global chessboard" and US (corporate-global finance) hegemony, over the bodies of innocents everywhere, not to mention the enthusiastic goading and grafting onto US policy of Zionist dreams. A truly nightmarish combination. No, I hope they don't win. Long live arrogant, stupid, US militarism! It failed in Vietnam and it will fail in the Mid-East. The world needs a long vacation from the US. At least McDonalds is leaving Iceland.
Meanwhile, Americans, who worship their golden calf of the US military and never fail to support "our boys," will find their country ruined by this collusion of Wall St.-Gov't-Pentagon. Well, basically it is already ruined. The moral and spiritual rot is evident; and legally, it is essentially now a police state. And the ruling cabal does what it pleases.
Posted by: George | October 28, 2009 2:09 PM
Great posts by George & George. :-)
Ain't it funny how in the midst of Mr. Smarty Pants deciding on more troops for Af/Pak, there is all this new, telegenic carnage in Af/Pak -- almost as if the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and the Men from Mars want an expansion of U.S involvement in the region.
Or someone does.
[I highly recommend, btw, continuing coverage from Cryptome. g.]
Posted by: EJK | October 28, 2009 3:04 PM