Thursday, July 22, 2004

A failure of vision  Gen John Keane, Army Vice Chief of Staff (the Army's #2) in testimony before the House Armed Services Committe on July 15th. “The intellectual capital to prepare ourselves properly for an insurgency was not there,” “There were very few people who actually envisioned, honestly, before the war, what we are dealing with now after the regime went down.”  “We have a lot of young folks that paid the price for that lack of foresight. Am I correct?” Rep. Ike Skelton (D-MO), the committee’s ranking Democrat, asked. “Right, yes, sir,” Keane replied. NOTE:  Of course, not everyone had a failure of vision on this. 11:16:37 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

William Lind.  Iraq is already in civil war.  NOTE:  I think civil war is a bad term for this, but the sentiment is similar. 3:07:26 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

The problem with the 9/11 report is that it isn't going to change the lethargic inbred hierarchies at the CIA, DIA, DoD, FBI, etc.   As long as these organizations go unchanged, we are going to lose this war.  I agree with Anonymous; there isn't any cause for optimism when it comes to our government's effort.  12:39:32 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

WP.  The U.S. military has spent most of the $65 billion that Congress approved for fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and is scrambling to find $12.3 billion more from within the Defense Department to finance the wars through the end of the fiscal year, federal investigators said yesterday. 9:39:19 AM    Comment_ Trackback []