01 April 2006

Why does Condoleeza Rice hate the Military?

WBAL:
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice conceded Friday that the United States probably has made thousands of "tactical errors" in Iraq and elsewhere, but said it will be judged by its larger aims of peace and democracy in the Middle East. The U.S. diplomat met loud anti-war protests in the streets and skeptical questions about U.S. involvement in Iraq at a foreign policy salon Friday, including one about whether Washington had learned from its "mistakes over the past three years." Rice replied that leaders would be "brain-dead" if they did not absorb the lessons of their times. "I know we've made tactical errors, thousands of them I'm sure," Rice told an audience gathered by the British foreign policy think tank Chatham House. "But when you look back in history, what will be judged will be, did you make the right strategic decisions."
This bitch just doesn't 'get it'. Operation Clusterfuck was riddled with strategic blunders. From top to bottom, it is a lesson in horrific strategic decision making. Military leaders and the rank-and-file make tactical decisions, and sure, there have been a few. But this effort to deflect responsibility from the President and his cronies who desperately wanted their war, no matter what they had to do to get it, onto those who are forced to make tactical and operational decisions to support the strategy is a slap in the face to the brave men and women that this administration seems to have nothing but contempt for. Eat shit, Condi. Wars are, and always will be, political decisions. When the going gets rough, don't you dare point the finger at the people you have ordered into the line of fire. Take some fucking responsibility for once.

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