Tonight, if you believe the media, President Jo Jo the Idiot Boy will call on the US Military to ship another 20,000 soldiers over to Iraq. It will be called a ‘surge’. Surge is much prettier and less threatening than the more accurate Viet Nam era term: Escalation.
Some perspective here: In Gulf War I, the one that Daddy Bush and Norman Schwartzkopf did in 1990, put 660,000 pairs of boots into battle to reopen Kuwait and free the innocent, imprisoned oil. The Secretary of Defense was some mook from Wyoming called Dick Cheney and the Secretary of State was James Baker. General Colin Powell was in the Pentagon and Paul Wolfowitz was Undersecretary of Defense. Do these names sound familiar? By the way, Donald Rumsfeld was working with ABB at the time, selling a nuclear reactor to North Korea, but before that, Rummy was Regan’s Special Envoy in the early 80’s, dealing with Iraq.
Fast forward to Gulf War II. To free the innocent, imprisoned oil in Iraq, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Jo Jo The Idiot Boy decided that they could do the job with less than half the boots over a land mass that more than 10 times the size of Kuwait. Or, to paraphrase Rumsfeld, you fight with the army you have, not the army you want. The first couple of weeks went very well and Iraq lost.
Then the wheels fell off. President JoJo The Idiot Boy got to swan around in a flight suit under the Mission Accomplished banner on the deck of the Teddy Roosevelt on May 1st, 2003. Rummy, Cheney and Rove patted each other on the back until their tennis elbow acted up.
Suffice to say Iraq has become a meat grinder that has gone on longer than the US involvement in World War II. We’ve already plowed the ground in previous posts about what went wrong two weeks after the invasion.
Now President Jo Jo The Idiot Boy wants to ship over a token force to bring victory to the Forces of Democracy. He’s short a zero and a multiplier of three. The US needs close to 750,000 troops as long as the Generals are willing to get down and fight dirty.
There’s the catch. I’m not quite a pacifist, but I know that talking is less expensive and less destructive than going to war. Talk works best 99 times out of 100, but a nation must be prepared for that one time out of one hundred when the Affairs of Men and Nations call for the application of significant amounts of violent, deadly force.
I have all the respect possible for the soldiers, who have the courage to serve, but I have nothing but contempt for the leaders who seem intent on not winning regardless of how many soldiers they maim and kill while not getting the thing done. I’ll live with that inconsistency, thanks for asking.
What will the ‘surge’ do? Nothing tangible regarding Iraq and bringing stability to the region, as there are not enough troops in-theatre to get the job done. It is a press release that gives JoJo The Idiot Boy something to talk about for a half-hour of prime time TV.
Daddy has already bought and paid for the Iraqi Study Group (James Baker, come on down!) to get his dumber son out of the quagmire of Iraq.
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