Sometimes you just look at the numbers.
This fact has been noted elsewhere, but it is worth paying attention to. It is simply the length of this current war.
For 1382 days we have been fighting a war against those who attacked us on September 11th. The people who did this were collection of just a few thousand men, protected by a government with a ragtag army involved in fighting its own civil war.
1382 days have passed and this war is still going on. The leader of the terror group who attacked us is still free. Some of the leaders of the nation that supported this terrorist are free, and fighting us in their homeland. US troops are still fighting and dying in this very land. In truth, we can actually only claim to control the environs around capital of this nation, the rest is controlled by warlords, who's loyalty will last only as long as the cash keeps coming in.
What is more amazing than our inability to secure this one nation is that our leaders, with this first war still going on, made the choice to attack another nation. They used the false premise that this land was planning to attack us with weapons of mass destruction. The battle here is actually going worse than the first failed front.
Now lets get some perspective.
On December 7th 1941, the US was attacked. We had to fight a global war against the largest powers on the planet.
That battle lasted only 1347 days, from first attack to final surrender.
That is an excellent way to quantify failure.
1 comment:
i personally add in the days from the original gulf war...why...because the failure you speak of is in the eyes of the public not the power. The american administration loves Iraq, and is not sorry for its ongoings. Its a constant cash cow for military contracts, oil reserves, and a permanent panic press whenever inner country turmoil begins to rise.
We all know what teh textbooks for Bush will read, but think of it this way, germany has quite the blackmark on their past and ole Adolf had quite a following in his prime.
We still cant utilize our dissent, but at least we can talk about it openly.
*great post
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