Posted on 05/15/2007 4:33:52 AM PDT by leadpenny
Boston University professor Andrew J. Bacevich has been a persistent, vocal critic of the Iraq war, calling the conflict a catastrophic failure. This week, the retired Army lieutenant colonel received the grim news that his son had been killed on patrol there.
First Lieutenant Andrew J. Bacevich , 27, of Walpole, died Sunday in Balad of wounds he suffered after a bomb explosion, the military said yesterday. The soldier, who graduated from BU in 2003 with a degree in communications, is the 56th service member from Massachusetts to be killed in Iraq.
His father, a veteran of the Vietnam and Gulf wars, has criticized the war in his writings and described President Bush's endorsement of such "preventive wars" as "immoral, illicit, and imprudent."
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Very sad. My condolences.
"He felt it was an important thing to do, regardless of the war that was going on," she said. Despite her father's strong feelings about the conflict, Katy Bacevich said, "he never would discourage my brother from doing what he wanted to do."
Prayers for First Lieutenant Andrew J. Bacevich & his family ~P~
A prayer for the soldier and his father, family and friends.
Another American hero. All those guys, the ones who die, the ones who get wounded, the ones who come home unscathed. They’re all true heroes.
Sad. Prayers for the family.
My prayers to Andy Bacevich and his family. I think to call him “anti-war” by the Globe is a smear. He disagrees with policy and how GWOT is being fought, but to say that he is an ‘anti-war peacenik’ as the Globe regularly uses the term to celebrate those who would rather surrender to any enemy of this nation (whom the Globe see as heros) is an insult to Bacevich.
Is it immoral for police to stop a man from raping more women? Is it immoral for police to stop a mass murderer who has already killed thousands?
Libs tell us we are responsible for the well-being of this small, small world. But I guess they don't believe in practicing what they preach.
So you're ready to head over to Darfur, Zimbabwe and North Korea, then? Saddam's police are gone, and the mass graves are filling at a slow trickle compared to before. Iraq is pretty well on the road to recovery, and more pressing and horrific atrocities await our intervention. Or is there more to it than simple morality?
Good point. We were in the same advanced course (armor) in 74-75. I knew then he was principled and brilliant.
Talk to him about National Interest.;-)
Boy, the Vietnam war ruined a lot of good men.
And now many of them want to ruin another generation of kids fighting for their country the same way.
Vietnam made me smarter and wiser. What did it do for you?
And a media star is born. look for the Senior to be on an endless round of TV shows and newspaper interviews ala the “Jersey Girls”.
I defend your right to make stupid and insensitive remarks, but neither of you are worthy of shining the Colonel’s boots.
We could only wish it made everybody smarter and wiser.
It made me angry, cynical and suspicious--angry at leaders who won't fight for all out, overwhelming victory, cynical about their strategy, and suspicious about their motives. Vietnam could have been won simply by invasion and liberation of the North and occupation of Hanoi; Iraq can be won by employing an overwhelming force to smother opposition (it should have been the goal at the outset). Limited warfare did not work in Vietnam and will not work in Iraq.
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