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.

Andrew Bacevich


Wednesday, December 1, 2010

War News for Wednesday, December 01, 2010

We had bad storms this morning which knocked out the power. I'll post tomarrow. -- whisker

Posted by whisker at 2:24 AM

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

In total the logs record 109,032 deaths and of these 66,081 are civilians, nearly two-thirds of all deaths logged by US troops in the six year period.
A further 176,000 civilians are also reported as wounded.

http://www.channel4.com/news/iraq-war-files-death-at-checkpoint

I thought Bush said Americans don't do civilian body counts. Liars like the American soldiers who write their lies in their reports.

December 1, 2010 at 6:05 PM
Dancewater said...

and then there is all the deaths that the US military does not even know about.....

this war is a massive, massive crime and unbelievably evil.

December 3, 2010 at 6:11 PM

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