Neo-Cons Call For Exterminating the Resistance
Jim Lobe:
Watching Zinni and Clancy on the Charlie Rose show tonight. Tony Zinni is saying our enemies are now amorphous while our military is structured to fight nation/states. I ordered the Clancy book on Zinni, Battle Ready, from Amazon last night. Will report after had a chance to read it.
"On the eve of the Iraq war, the Wall Street Journal, whose editorial page is another important source of neoconservative thinking, warned, 'before the U.S. can worry about rebuilding Iraq, it has to win militarily, and decisively so. As (Princeton University Orientalist) Bernard Lewis and other scholars have long noted, Arab cultures despise weakness in an adversary above all.'The neo-cons must be removed from the decision making circle.
Now, more than 15 months later -- with close to 90 percent of Iraqis, according to the latest survey, saying they consider U.S. troops to be 'occupiers' rather than 'liberators,' Kristol and Lehrman insist that 'decisive military victories in Iraq would be respected by Sunnis, Shi'ites and Kurds alike.' Sadr's militia must be rendered powerless, they wrote, while 'Fallujah must be conquered.'
Precisely how Fallujah or other towns and cities are to be 'conquered' without piling up horrendous civilian casualties that alienate people far beyond Iraq's borders is unclear. Kristol suggested last week that 'any site where Americans are attacked will be regarded as a combat zone,' a suggestion that curiously recalled what since 1982 has been cited by neoconservatives as 'Hama Rules,' although to make an entirely different point."
Watching Zinni and Clancy on the Charlie Rose show tonight. Tony Zinni is saying our enemies are now amorphous while our military is structured to fight nation/states. I ordered the Clancy book on Zinni, Battle Ready, from Amazon last night. Will report after had a chance to read it.
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