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Subtitled: The Pentagon’s failed campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan left a generation of soldiers with little to fight for but one another.
The Times' article condemns the Pentagon (for their Vietnam-era ways) for failing to win as seen through the eyes of a disgruntled soldier. Some thoughts:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/08/magazine/war-afghanistan-iraq-soldiers.html
The Times' article condemns the Pentagon (for their Vietnam-era ways) for failing to win as seen through the eyes of a disgruntled soldier. Some thoughts:
- If our military were only restrained by the Geneva Convention, they'd win.
- "War is the continuation of politics by other means."
- Unlike terrorists, the Vietnamese had no precondition of American conversion to Communism to occur for peace
- The CIA isn't part of the Pentagon & aren't subject to their directives (as far as I know)
- Journalistic Restraint: detail problems where applied solutions didn't achieve 100% success but not offer any
- While President Bush is directly mentioned, the "O" word is only referred to once, & that was as a senator/presidential candidate thus really no direct connection to the events written about
- The photography is impressive
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/08/magazine/war-afghanistan-iraq-soldiers.html