Army War College essay calls Iraq war 'distraction'

[Radical__Moderate]

I search for this but found no other post on it

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/0104/12terreport.html

WASHINGTON -- A scathing new report published by the Army War College broadly criticizes the Bush administration's handling of the war on terrorism, accusing it of taking a detour into an "unnecessary" war in Iraq and pursuing an "unrealistic" quest against terrorism that may lead to U.S. wars with states that pose no serious threat .

The report, by visiting professor Jeffrey Record, who is on the faculty of the Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., warns that as a result of those mistakes, the Army is "near the breaking point." It recommends, among other things, scaling back the scope of the "global war on terrorism" and instead focusing on the narrower threat posed by the al-Qaida terrorist network.

" global war on terrorism as currently defined and waged is dangerously indiscriminate and ambitious, and accordingly . . . its parameters should be readjusted," Record writes. Currently, he adds, the anti-terrorism campaign "is strategically unfocused, promises more than it can deliver, and threatens to dissipate U.S. military resources in an endless and hopeless search for absolute security."

[grannylib]

1. Well what do they expect from this Commander in Thief? His motives

were transparent from the beginning: money, power, oil, revenge...

[underpants]

2. More from those unpatriotic Army guys

Sorry I couldn't resist.

[pippin]

3. They are the ones putting their lives

on the line after all in the interest of a "distraction." Good for Jeffrey Record!

[bpilgrim]

4. not likely to be on my reading list anytime soon' - top Pentagon spokesman

Larry DiRita, the top Pentagon spokesman, said he had not read the Record study. He added: "If the conclusion is that we need to be scaling back in the global war on terrorism, it's not likely to be on my reading list anytime soon."

not considering, at all, views that differ from your own leads to disastrous consequences.

peace

[underpants]

5. (fingers in ears) neeeeenerneeeener

Well if he doesn't read it who is going to readthe executive summary to W?

[Moderator]

6. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=309770