It is a remarkable assessment only in the sense that it is coming from a serving US army officer.
 LT. COL. PAUL YINGLING predicts US will be defeated in Iraq (as if we didnt know this). But I must give him credit for writing very clearly the reasons why America will be defeated in Iraq.
Of the three ingredients of a successful war he mentions in this article:
Passion – is 100% absent in the minds of Americans.Â
Strategic Probabilities – Generals have failed to show the probablities of winning this war to the public and the government.
The last ingredient, Policy, is badly missing. If achieving better peace in Middle east was the policy – then that policy is deeply flawed. Presence of americans in Iraq has caused chaos and mayhem.
Now who will replace these incapable general corps that Yingling so much wants? He wishes Congress to do that. We shall see if Congress is upto that.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackWhere is the mainstream media on this? I’ve looked and there’s no on reporting.
There is now reporting in the media — the NY Times Magazine has a major article on Yingling’s critique, and the likely costs to him for voicing it. I am not “army material.” I have never had any interest in joining the military.In fact, they’d discharge me for being gay (plus having HIV wouldn’t help). I’m at best conflicted about the role of anyone’s military force in a modern world, and tend to view them as causing many more problems than they solve. That said, I hope that officers like Lt. Col Yingling will be successful, if only that they would not send young people into battle under-equiped, ill-trained only to be injured and returned to an inadequate VA hospital system that is also under-funded. That is the least that we must offer young people who enter the army as volunteers and serve in places where they are in constant danger. Our current government is all starry-eyed over the glory of war, but in the end cares nothing for the individual soldiers who are paying with their lives. That is a disgrace.
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