[Chgogal]

“And that was said two years before Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) declared the war lost, or questioned the competence of Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and the reliability of Gen. David Petreaus, whom the Senate unanimously confirmed this year to lead the change in strategy in Iraq.

Patterson asks in the book, “What country sends its men and women to war through national decree knowing some will give their all in sacrifice —- yet withers in resolve at the first signs of difficulty and abandons the will to fight? . . .

“What country’s duly elected politicians, often from both sides of the aisle, shamelessly exploit a conflict they voted to authorize and, in doing so, barter the sacrifice of American soldiers for political capital?”

With more votes on Iraq funding coming, it will soon be clear whether those politicians, and others whom Patterson calls “the enemy within,” will further isolate the military —- and in the process lose a war.”

Enough said!

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

Been Sold Out : Gunna Get Sold Out : BULLSHI'ITT SEZ ME !!...

[Cannoneer No. 4]

Dadmanly has a pretty good review up on his blog, in which he describes the uneasiness career military people have with involvement in partisan politics.

Just a little bit over half of our military's political masters are Democrats, so trained military psychological operators will not be countering enemy propaganda enthusiastically disseminated by our own major news outlets. What the electorate thinks and feels about the war in Iraq depends largely on the information they absorb from the publicly available open source intelligence provided by that same media.

Irregular infowarriors and PSYOP Auxiliaries, exercising their unencumbered freedom of speech, not subject to the Smith-Mundt Act and out of reach of vengeful Senators, may well be the only defense of the battle space between the ears of the American voter that is left to us.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

". . . in denouncing our actions, denouncing our leaders, denouncing the war we live and fight, they are isolating the military from society . . . and they are becoming our enemy."

[Cannoneer No. 4]

ping

[MizSterious]

Thanks for the quote, FRiend. I have his first book, and will head on over to amazon to look for this one. What he is saying is something I hope will be repeated often in reviews and on interviews.

That our troops are doing as well as they are is a tribute to their skill. It is entirely an uphill battle, fought against a ruthless enemy with no scruples, no honor, and not a scrap of humanity amongst the lot of them. One half of the enemy is in Iraq and its neighbors Iran and Syria, and the other is in the halls of congress, the newsrooms, and the so-called entertainment industry.

[Marine_Uncle]

I wonder how many Arizonians will read Buzz’s latest book and see why the snake has to be voted out office. Of course I know the answer to that. Blurtha still operates with impunity in western PA.