Colonel Jeffrey Snow thinks the real enemy is not Iraqi insurgents, but the media and the American people.
A US combat commander suggested the United States could lose the war in Iraq if public support for it at home is sapped by negative media coverage.
“My personal opinion is that the only way we will lose this war is if we pull out prematurely,” said Colonel Jeffrey Snow, a brigade commander in Baghdad.
“I would hope we get the time and support we need to finish this mission,” he said in a video conference from Iraq.
Snow, whose own troops have come under stepped-up insurgent attacks this month, criticized media coverage as too focused on insurgent roadside bombings, kidnappings and assassinations.
“Our soldiers may be in the crosshairs every day, but it is the American voter who is a real target, and it is the media that carries the message back each day across the airwaves,” he said.
“So when the news is not balanced and it’s always bad, that clearly leads to negative perceptions back home,” he said.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Colonel Snow is correct. The only way we can lose the war in Iraq is if the American people force our politicians to withdraw the troops. Therefore, the American people are the real enemy and must be closely monitored and subjected to relentless psychological operations. Anything less would be a failure of resolve in the Global War on Terror and a boon to al-Qaeda. If the American people are not utterly defeated, there can no victory in Iraq. Zarqawi is Dead. Long Live Zarqawi.
Congressman Peter King (R-NY) seems to think so, too.
Batshit crazy King, who is the Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, was just on CNN Late Edition with Rep. Barney Franks and anchor John Roberts. According to King, Al Qaeda is greatly weakened and our greatest threat is now homegrown terrorists — I doubt he was referring to BushCo — I guess he was inferring the New York Times.
and “We have always been at war with Oceana”.
“My personal opinion is that the only way we will lose this war is if we pull out prematurely,” said Colonel Jeffrey Snow, a brigade commander in Baghdad.
Colonel Snow is clearly a shill for new and improved military-strengh viagra, the kind that allows you to stay inside another country for decades without wavering.
The United States is in serious decline, and I’m having trouble deciding whether that is a bad thing for the world given the current level of our public discourse. I don’t know whether I’m more disgusted with the politicians and media who treat us all like morons, or the vast majority of my fellow citizens who seem to, in fact, be morons.
Why do people buy this rah rah shit? Invading other nations and killing thousands of people seems to me to be among the most immoral, evil things a nation can do. Staying indefintely and killing thousands more is just a continuation of the crimes.
Of course, that isn’t the way it works in this country, where immoral behavior seems to be strictly limited to sex. Apparently, I can kill someone as long as I don’t fuck them first. Good to know.
… screw him or her, it’s permitted (provided you’re of the opposite sex and don’t use birth-control, since to do otherwise is a sin). Then you can divorce your spouse and kill her–in the defense of the nation, of course! (some sarcqsm included) ;^)
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Whatever happens to the rest of the country, I hope you save yourself somehow.
No, I am not kidding. You understand stuff and you and all of those like you in that way are my idea of our national treasures.
The president works for us, not the other way around. The U.S. military is supposed to defend us via defending the Constitution against all enemies.
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(here’s the sarcastic part):
I guess according to Colonel Snow (he should change his name to “Flagg”), the only reasonable thing to do is to re-invade Vietnam.
It isn’t too late there, is it?
Something I wrote a few days ago:
From the mouths of cat-killers:
Nerdified Link.
As I’ve said before and will say again, what Frist is doing is little more than serving up a rhetorical device used by Nazis to suppress dissent. By referring to calls for getting out of a war situation that is doomed to failure (at least to anyone who isn’t dead from the neck up) as “cutting and running”, or “demoralizing the troops”, or falling back on the old Vietnam (and now Iraq) Syndrome, the right-wing’s hardliners are doing their level best to sidestep an honest debate. When the facts refuse to cooperate, rather than appeal to facts, the hardliners are appealing to fear, hatred, bitterness. Hey, if it worked for old Uncle Adolf…
And of course it should go without saying that when these jokers go using that rhetorical technique, we should be calling bullshit.
There is a reason why the military carries out policy made by the civilian leadership.
A good reason.
Yeah, that is the theory and usually a good one.
Unfortunately for our service men and women, the current civilian leadership with Bush and Rummy in charge is a) insane b) evil c) criminal d) incompetent e) all of the above.
I don’t really have an argument to counter that 🙂
the old we would have won vietnam if it werent for… We would have won Iraq if it werent for….. Good God we lost Vietnam because the bvast majority of the Vietnamese people wanted the occupier out. It is a shame that we have never admitted we LOST this war because if had admitted this we may have looked at the reasons for our DEFEAT and not repeated them in Iraq. Now of course we stumble to another inevitable defeat but our imbecillic political and military leadership cannot see the real reason for it. Truly astounding.