In an article by John Horgan, July 27, 2010, in ScientificAmerican, “Obama’s Choice For Warrior-In-Chief, Gen. James Mattis,” Horgan wrote that Gen. Mattis “Calls Iraq Invasion ‘The Dumbest Thing We Ever Did.’”
It should have been no surprise that Gen. Mattis said that the 2003 invasion of Iraq “was the dumbest thing we ever did.” He is absolutely right.
He nevertheless insisted that the U.S. must now win the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He went on to say on America’s enemies: “There are real enemies out there. I’ve dealt with
them. There are people who really believe girls don’t have the right to go to school… [They] try to bring those views forward in some form of tyranny. That’s all it is. We are dealing with tyranny today, and there are very few people in Brussels or London or Washington, D.C., who are willing to call it what it is. In false religious garb, we have people who are continuing the same thing we fought in World War I when it was militarism. World War II was fascism (and) the Cold War and hot wars when it was communism. This is just another form of tyranny, is all it is. …This enemy must continue to kill and kill and kill.”
While the “WikiLeaks” published by Julian Paul Assange, seemingly a man with no country who has to sleek from country to country with his lap top computer under his arm, has made some generally know facts, become more public knowledge.
Particularly disturbing to some is the report of Pakistani support for the Taliban.
Personally, I have read or heard nothing I did not know before Assange. Including the Pakistani intelligence service ISI helping the Taliban. Can anyone blame them – the Pakistanis?
The Pakistanis will be around the area along after we are gone. They’re simply covering their bases.
Who can blame them? But, as Gen. Mattis said, we must now win or end the war with some semblance of stability in that war ravaged area of the world.
