What is winning, what is losing…
Is Winning the most important goal when the concept is flawed? We are dealing with this conundrum on a daily basis in Iraq. For some of us, from the beginning the reasons for our involvement was at best questionable. There were far too many reasons that were put to us that just did not add up.
Watching Colon Powell give his U.N. address was an eloquent exercise in body language suppression. His eyes and face told the audience that he was being a “good solder” and that we should all follow “this lead”. What he really told us on that day was that this war was not his basic strategic model, and that what we were hearing was not a strategy based upon sound military principles.
So We Won the War. And have been losing the concept of peace ever since. Why is it that winning ultimately became losing, and how or can we have our moral high ground restored in such a way, that we the American People can once again become respected in the world view of recognizing that winning sometimes is facing the realities of a failed strategy and that the idealism of our young soldiers who fight for their Country, should be supported in kind by the integrity of our leaders.
The reasons for War changed, and became visionary forged in a false sense of idealism. The vision was based wrongly upon changing a “cultural paradigm” of the tribes and chiefs, but I will save these musings for another day…
Is Winning the most important goal when the concept is flawed? We are dealing with this conundrum on a daily basis in Iraq. For some of us, from the beginning the reasons for our involvement was at best questionable. There were far too many reasons that were put to us that just did not add up.
Watching Colon Powell give his U.N. address was an eloquent exercise in body language suppression. His eyes and face told the audience that he was being a “good solder” and that we should all follow “this lead”. What he really told us on that day was that this war was not his basic strategic model, and that what we were hearing was not a strategy based upon sound military principles.
So We Won the War. And have been losing the concept of peace ever since. Why is it that winning ultimately became losing, and how or can we have our moral high ground restored in such a way, that we the American People can once again become respected in the world view of recognizing that winning sometimes is facing the realities of a failed strategy and that the idealism of our young soldiers who fight for their Country, should be supported in kind by the integrity of our leaders.
The reasons for War changed, and became visionary forged in a false sense of idealism. The vision was based wrongly upon changing a “cultural paradigm” of the tribes and chiefs, but I will save these musings for another day…
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