PHOTO: Tribal members take part in a protest in
Monday, April 2, 2007
Security Incidents for 04/02/07
Posted by Dancewater at 11:55 PM
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Successor to Today in Iraq
The present-day U.S. military qualifies by any measure as highly professional, much more so than its Cold War predecessor. Yet the purpose of today’s professionals is not to preserve peace but to fight unending wars in distant places. Intoxicated by a post-Cold War belief in its own omnipotence, the United States allowed itself to be drawn into a long series of armed conflicts, almost all of them yielding unintended consequences and imposing greater than anticipated costs. Since the end of the Cold War, U.S. forces have destroyed many targets and killed many people. Only rarely, however, have they succeeded in accomplishing their assigned political purposes. . . . [F]rom our present vantage point, it becomes apparent that the “Revolution of ‘89” did not initiate a new era of history. At most, the events of that year fostered various unhelpful illusions that impeded our capacity to recognize and respond to the forces of change that actually matter.
PHOTO: Tribal members take part in a protest in
Posted by Dancewater at 11:55 PM
3 comments:
I was wondering where you guys had got to...glad to find you united.
I'm rather surprised that no one has seen fit to say anything over at 'Today in Iraq' since 30.3.07.
Will TiI keep going?
I'll link this site under it :)
...and see you later....
This is getty really confusing ...
ThePaper
Just to express my support.
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