The battle in Iraq
Having made my previous posts on Iraq; I felt that I should make this one which is actually one that I could have made a long time ago, as early or prior to any of the others, and have been meaning to post for quite a while, just hadn't gotten it done.
With everything that I've seen, heard or thought about the war, all my comments have been that it was wrong for us to have gone into Iraq in the first place, for numerous reasons; and that, having gone there, that the operations have been devastatingly mismanaged all along. Some say the current 'surge' may work and that the current folks in charge including the new secretary of Defense may make a difference. It's hard to say. But, until recently and clearly everything up until Rumsfeld and his crew was pretty disastrous.
Having said that. I have also, always felt really impressed at the attitude of the soldiers, the marines, and others who have gone over there. Whenever I've heard them interviewed over there, and/or interviewed back home after returning; some of which, are planing to go back again; I've found it incredibly inspiring the attitude of almost all of the folks that I've heard from. They have a strong sense of doing the right thing in Iraq; and it seems very admirable.
This may have been stronger in the beginning and may have waned some over the years, with the way that operations have dragged on, and some of the obvious mismanagement, that no one can be faulted for coming back from there nowadays with a less than great attitude.
But, for the most part, (and I guess, especially, early on) so many of the men and women that have gone over there to serve, have had a very impressive attitude about helping the Iraqi people.
Same as in Viet Nam, none of the mishandling and bad judgements have been of their doing.
A casual friend of mine had his son, a young man, back home for a couple of weeks a while back and he came in to the place where my friend works as a musician and I go to hear music (occasionally) on the weekends. Several of us regulars (I'm not as regular as I used to be) wanted to be sure and meet him. I did, and again, I was really impressed with his attitude of how his mission along with that of the others he was serving with was a positive mission and was helping the Iraqi people.
If by whatever means, it turns out that at some point the Iraqi people are able to recover and develop a better country than what they had before we went in there. I'd be glad to see that.
With everything that I've seen, heard or thought about the war, all my comments have been that it was wrong for us to have gone into Iraq in the first place, for numerous reasons; and that, having gone there, that the operations have been devastatingly mismanaged all along. Some say the current 'surge' may work and that the current folks in charge including the new secretary of Defense may make a difference. It's hard to say. But, until recently and clearly everything up until Rumsfeld and his crew was pretty disastrous.
Having said that. I have also, always felt really impressed at the attitude of the soldiers, the marines, and others who have gone over there. Whenever I've heard them interviewed over there, and/or interviewed back home after returning; some of which, are planing to go back again; I've found it incredibly inspiring the attitude of almost all of the folks that I've heard from. They have a strong sense of doing the right thing in Iraq; and it seems very admirable.
This may have been stronger in the beginning and may have waned some over the years, with the way that operations have dragged on, and some of the obvious mismanagement, that no one can be faulted for coming back from there nowadays with a less than great attitude.
But, for the most part, (and I guess, especially, early on) so many of the men and women that have gone over there to serve, have had a very impressive attitude about helping the Iraqi people.
Same as in Viet Nam, none of the mishandling and bad judgements have been of their doing.
A casual friend of mine had his son, a young man, back home for a couple of weeks a while back and he came in to the place where my friend works as a musician and I go to hear music (occasionally) on the weekends. Several of us regulars (I'm not as regular as I used to be) wanted to be sure and meet him. I did, and again, I was really impressed with his attitude of how his mission along with that of the others he was serving with was a positive mission and was helping the Iraqi people.
If by whatever means, it turns out that at some point the Iraqi people are able to recover and develop a better country than what they had before we went in there. I'd be glad to see that.
posted by Dave at 1:36 AM
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