Time: Pentagon Rhetoric About Ramadi’s Fall Risks U.S. Credibility
When generals start playing with syntax, hold on to your wallets. “The ISF (Iraqi Security Forces) was not driven out of Ramadi,” Army General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Wednesday. “They drove out of Ramadi.”
That grammatical shift from the passive to the active voice—Dempsey boasts a master’s degree in literature from Duke, after all—highlights just how badly Iraq’s U.S.-backed war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is now going.
“We saw this movie—it was called Vietnam,” says Anthony Zinni, a retired four-star Marine general who began his career in that country in 1967, advising South Vietnamese marines. “They are losing credibility. We went through this in Vietnam where we touted pacification and winning all these battles while strategically losing the war.”
WNU Editor: The media is focusing on the Pentagon and how their "rhetoric" is risking U.S. credibility .... but the real story (and what much of the media is ignoring) is the White House's rhetoric on the fall of Ramadi.
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Destroying everything except ISIS fighters it seems.
While body counts can mislead, it is a metric.
For all we know their numbers, skill & will are increasing.
Almost without fail the upper echelons of militaries will reflect the views and desires of their top command. This should come as no surprise. This article illuminates the struggle to apportion and escape blame for strategic military and political failure by upper command and their political masters. When there is success it needs no "help" in narrative, but failure must always live in the shadows of lies and fantasy.
Enough pointy head philosophy, time to be off for pathos, religious introspection, and fundamental self doubt....GOLF.
James .... it was 2 degrees Celsius outside my home when I woke up this morning. Too damn cold for golf in my book ... so consider yourself lucky. Correction .... really lucky.
I believe we saw the same kind of military accuracy during the invasion of Pananam when the leftest burrio where accidently pulverized repeatedly.
A summary of the invasion of Rushaldi.
http://thinkingaboot.blogspot.ca/2015/05/arguing-it-flat-or-round.html
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