“You can smell it. It smells like death.” – Big Daddy
That rancid odor you detect is fear and desperation.
Not being able to win a war, which is our go-to foreign policy tactic, is embarrassing. When we invaded Afghanistan we were fighting people that operated out of caves with cell phones and VCRs as their advanced technology. Still there after all those years.
The discussion about invading yet another country that hasn’t attacked US, Iran, raises the question of troop levels required. I have seen 1 million mentioned.
Which brings to mind the draft…
One million troops will be a tough sell. This is the perfect opportunity to try out a low yield nukes (to paraphrase a former president – it depends on your definition of low). I suspect the pentagram thinks nukes will be the only way to “win” in Iran.
This is the Madeline Albright strategy. “What is the point of having it if you can’t use it.”
Low yield nukes could be much more devastating than their big brothers.
Desperate, struggling people often do stupid things.
On the bright side I am much too old for the draft. How about you?
The Pentagon’s inability to win America’s recent wars in any convincing way may be about to become a much bigger problem than anyone realized, as experts express major concerns about a new policy doctrine adopted by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
US struggles with conventional warfare, despite massively outspending everyone else, and they are hoping to turn that around by using nuclear weapons in America’s assorted conflicts, seeing nuclear war as creating “conditions for decisive results and the restoration of strategic stability.”
This Nuclear Operations document was published online by the Pentagon briefly last week, but was subsequently removed, Read the rest of this entry »
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