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October 15, 2005
An Imperial Super Power Can't Even Secure A Road?
In reviewing the American Conservatives’ article Money for Nothing I was struck by (among other things) this passage.
“Bremer escaped Baghdad by helicopter two days before his proconsulship expired to avoid a possible ambush on the road leading to the airport, which he had been unable to secure. He has recently been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, an honor he shares with ex-CIA Director George “Slam-dunk” Tenet.”
As a former Infantry officer I would consider it a disgrace that simple movement within a defined area under my command wasn’t reasonably safe. Not perfectly safe, mind you. Guerilla war is a stealthy and ever shifting affair I concede, but this?
Have US Army standards sunk so low or are they so incompetent or undermanned that just safe movement along a road is too hard for them to achieve? Apparently so, and at a billion dollars a day too. This nation-building scheme is such a swindle that even the Pork Meister King of the US Senate would blanche at it.
Posted by Ali Massoud at October 15, 2005 11:27 AM
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