Killing for peace, mindfucking for sanity

December 28th, 2009

Fans of

President Obama’s plan

to escalate the war in Afghanistan

hope to repeat the “success” of our surge strategy

in Iraq. That may prove easier to accomplish

than even the most rabid Afghanistan

surge proponent dares to

dream of.

The Iraq

surge was already in motion

in January 2007, when Bush and Cheney flipped

off the Iraq Study Group and decided to escalate the war with

David Petraeus, the “Teflon General,” at the helm of the operation.

A shameless self-promoter, “King David” created the illusion of a successful

surge by lowering violence statistics through his usual method of

operation: hand out weapons to the bad guys, bribe the

bad guys not to use the weapons, and pretend to

be shocked, shocked when the bad guys

take the bribes and use

the weapons

anyway.

Even

Petraeus’s personal

stenographer, former journalist

Thomas E. Ricks, admits that Petraeus misled Congress

and the public into thinking he was trying to end

the war when he was in fact laying “the

groundwork for a much more

prolonged engagement

in Iraq.”

Commander Jeff Huber, USN (Ret.)

The

general

is the bulwark

of the nation.  When the

bulwark is strong, the nation is strong.

When the bulwark is weak,

the nation is

weak.

 

There

are three ways

in which a ruler can

bring misfortune to his army:

If he orders the army to retreat or

advance when it cannot effectively do so,

this is called “hobbling the army”;  if he attempts

to administer the army when he does not know how,

its warriors will become frustrated; if he

commands the officers without proper

insight into how they function,

this will undermine their

confidence.

 

 

Once

an army has been

confused like this, trouble

will arise from every direction.

This is known as “inviting

chaos and handing

victory to the

opponent.”