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Seems Pretty Clear To Me
By Maj P
Pardon me for leaping in uninvited, but this article in today's WaPo caught my eye.
Sun Tzu tells us that if you know yourself and your enemy, you're good to go. I'm not sure we're even at the fifty-percent mark on those tasks.
We need to wise up.
Maj P
PS: For those few regular viwers of my little blog, sorry for the absence, been busy. I'll rectify that soon. Also absent recently has been Craig, but he just told me that he's thrown up a couple new posts.
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I think you've hit on a huge point here, Maj. P. One of the key reports that's come out after the Iraq invasion has largely been ignored by the MSM and bloggers alike. It's the JFCOM report called the "Iraqi Perspectives Project" which went back and interviewed the military and political leadership of pre-war Iraq. Based on those interviews and documentary evidence captured in Iraq, we now have a clear understanding of the Iraqi decision-making processes before the war. The huge lesson-learned here is that we were almost entirely ignorant about the Iraq regime, the delusions of Saddam and his closest advisors, and the effects of those delusions and despotism on the decisions Iraq made with respect to WMD and the preparation and conduct of the war. For example, while we were all laughing at "Baghdad Bob" and his ludicrious declarations of Iraqi success and American failure, the Iraqi leadership largely believed every word he was saying, even as our columns were already in the heart of the city.
The majority of this report was declassified and published, you can find it here:
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/special/iraq/ipp.pdf
The current issue of Foreign Affairs has a great summary article on the report, which you can read here:
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20060501faessay85301/kevin-woods-james-lacey-williamson-murray/saddam-s-delusions-the-view-from-the-inside.html
The reason I bring this up is because this report shows we did not know our enemy with regard to Iraq. And I fear that we similarly don't know our enemy with regard to Iran. We need to really increase our depth of knowledge on Iran, especially the factors that influence their decision-making processes, if we want to successfully achieve our goals of de-nuclearizing them.
I think all milbloggers, especially those who participated in the 2003 ground campaign, will appreciate a lot of what the IPP report has to say. It explains a lot of why the Iraqi defense was so feeble.
Happy reading!
Sun Tzu also teaches about the problems inherent in being "Number One".
Numbers Two, Three, etc. have a well-defined and simple objective: Get Number One.
Number One, on the other hand, can get all tied down in apparent attempts at defenses that can only be described as paranoia.
This old brain has forgotten the name of the Italian writer who laid down the basic rule that states that "you cannot fight a religion". Because a religion is a thing and you cannot fight a thing. You can, however, fight people.
Personally I'm convinced that the present administration knows this full well and it is the fundamental policy behind something that has enraged many conservatives: Our current POTUS rightfully refuses to declare war on a religion.
As for the left, they are constantly hoping that we would take up such folly. They constantly accuse us of it even without any sign of evidence.
We must fight the people in this War on Terror and victory can only be measured when those people are beaten bad enough to begin questioning their own actions in no uncertain terms, or are annihilated. Which is the basic response required in any war. See Churchill, Truman et al, "Unconditional Surrender".
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Hey hold down Maj P. lets not forget the “educated” reality of the LLL’s who explain “why do they hate US” so much more ehhh self hating I mean enlightened, because we all know somehow all evil in the world is a result of the evil US and her ignorant oppressive Democratic, Capitalist, empire. That is the basis for all thought and the starting point for the peace-love-&-happiness LLL movements’ mentality.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLG%2CGGLG%3A2005-39%2CGGLG%3Aen&q=Why+the+Middle+East+hates+the+US
There is pages worth here some well known some fringe but the fact that this is what many on the left see as reasonable thought is really telling of the state of our nation and how deep the peace-love-&-happiness LLL mentality of self hating insanity has permeated our culture.