The war on Iraq has, predictably, revealed the "hyperpowerful" US not merely as a paper tiger but as a tissue-paper tiger at that. Donald Rumsfeld's most memorable comment of the entire Iraq fiasco was, "As you know, you go to war with the army you have." You'd think the US Army had been in the same shape it was on the eve of World War II -- reduced to training with wooden rifles and trucks marked "I'm a tank" -- rather than being the product of zillions of dollars spent on the highest-tech weaponry and equipment over many decades.
How long will it take for Americans to see that their military establishment is not the nation's protector but an insidious parasite that eats up the nation's resources and produces nothing but trouble ariound the world?
Carl
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