There are times that political parties make strategic mistakes with the best of intentions. That happened this week. As they say, the way to hell is paved with the best of intentions
Now the only thing take heart in is that it took three years to get out of Vietnam. Any who lived through the period or studies history, will realize that many of the current excuses were used back then. Indeed, we may see genocide when we pull out, but that is inevitable. Why am I saying this? Again,. anybody who studies history will realize this when readying this:
http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/files/iraq_food_deliveries.pdfOh and here is what the brief said
Due to a theater-wide delay in food delivery, menu selections will be limited for the near future. While every effort will be made to provide balanced meals, it may not be possible to offer the dishes you are used to seeing at each meal. Fresh fruits and salad bar items will also be severely limited or unavailable.
Now any student of logistics knows that when any army faces this kind of a crisis... it is trouble
Larry Johnson has blogged extensively on this as well
You can find him here
http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/05/the_surge_is_fa.htmlAnd you can find more here, at the Washington Post
Taste of Home Runs Low in Iraq
Complications Hold Up Embassy Food Convoys
By Karen DeYoungWashington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, May 24, 2007; Page A26
Congress and the White House may be sparring over funds for the U.S. effort in Iraq, but the mint chocolate chip is still flowing at the embassy in Baghdad. At least for now.
Life in the Green Zone -- a Foreign Service hardship post -- has long been mitigated by the culinary comforts of home. Virtually every bite and sip consumed there is imported from the United States, entering Iraq via Kuwait in huge truck convoys that bring fresh and processed food, including a full range of Baskin-Robbins ice cream flavors, every seven to 10 days.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/23/AR2007052301344.htmlThis is very serious, and unfortunately some people will still scream support the troops.. yet those same people do not, nor do they care to learn, just how precarious the situation on the ground truly is.