There is, in short, not a single enemy in existence or on the horizon willing to play the victim to the military we continue to build.
That is, in itself, a victory. It means we DETERED a war of that nature.
Not a single item in our trillion-dollar arsenal can compare with the genius of the suicide bomber--the breakthrough weapon of our time. Our intelligence systems cannot locate him, our arsenal cannot deter him, and, all too often, our soldiers cannot stop him before it is too late.
Horsepucky. Suicide bombers continue to attack civilians in Iraq, but few of our soldiers are being killed by suicide bombers. Name a strategic goal accomplished by the suicide bombers. US out of Iraq? End of Israel? WE're winning the fight against suicide bombers.
One of the most consistently disheartening experiences an adult can have today is to listen to the endless attempts by our intellectuals and intelligence professionals to explain religious terrorism in clinical terms, assigning rational motives to men who have moved irrevocably beyond reason.
True - but few people pay much attention to "our intellectuals and intelligence professionals" - they have a pee-poor track record.
Increasingly, our military is designed for breathtaking sprints, yet a war with China--were one forced upon us by events--would be a miserable, long march. For all the rhetoric expended and the innumerable wargames played, the best metaphor for a serious struggle with Beijing--perhaps of Homeric length--comes from that inexhaustible little book, Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness, with its pathetic image of a Western gunboat lobbing shells uselessly into a continent.
Dude, a war with China doesn't mean an invasion of China. That would mean nukes, and most folks understand we cannot win in any meaningful sense such a war. Peters is raising a strawman.
The media may constitute the decisive element in the global counterrevolution in military affairs, and the video camera--that insatiable accomplice of the terrorist--the cheap negation of our military technology.
Peters is a media darling, but most folks trust the media about as much as they trust used car salesmen. Those cameras didn't count for squat against the US military in 2003, did they?
Peters is simply anti-F22. I can sympathize with that, but Peters has no rational alternative.
You wonder whether they really take themselves seriously or whether the publisher just wanted more than the usual number of pages of the usual paranoid drivel. This is entertainment for some people out there.
Regime change in Spain and Spain out of Iraq.
Suicide bombers have been around forever, notably in WWII. The reason the enemy is inscrutable is because the diabolical leftists have shackled the intel agencies. We need the new technology, but there is a danger in becoming too fond of it. Peter's point is well taken but he spends way too many pages making that point.