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June 14, 2006
The War is Unwinnable (an excerpt)
Tom Orange
He talks about his realization that the war was unwinnable, about a private memo to the president, about whether he resigned or the president fired him
He used the “CBS Evening News” as a bully pulpit, particularly when he said in the 1960s that the Vietnam War was unwinnable.
Iraq has not had - and may never have - its moment when a news anchor travels to Iraq to inspect the situation and pronounces the war unwinnable.
But at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, gray-haired men and women in floppy boonie hats and faded green battle fatigues worried aloud that a new generation of veterans is being forged in a war as unwinnable as their own
For its part, the Sudanese government saw the war was unwinnable and wanted US sanctions lifted
They destroyed Britain’s air of invincibility and convinced many British leaders that the war was unwinnable
There was little he could do to convince the president that the war was unwinnable
Calling for the Defense Secretary’s resignation is as bad a signal as saying the war is unwinnable
To say this morning, while our troops are under enemy fire, while American blood is flowing on the battlefield, that this war is unwinnable is an insult to every man and woman who has ever fought and sacrificed under the flag of this nation
The Congressman, a former marine and staunch supporter of the Pentagon, caused consternation when he said last week that the war was unwinnable without a large injection of troops and more international help, neither of which are seen as attainable at present
Political fashion in Washington holds that the war is unwinnable
It was more a sense that the war was unwinnable and not being won and not worth the price
Some members of Congress -- either out of a passion to defeat the president, pique at not being listened to by his administration, or simply a need to hear their own voices -- are declaring the war “unwinnable” or “a quagmire,” or are demanding an “exit strategy”
The candidate has been wise to shun the advice of those telling him to detail an exit plan and to say the war is unwinnable
The author said that by early 1972, if not before, the administration had concluded the war was unwinnable
No amount of valor or heroism can conceal the fact that they were sent off under false pretenses to fight a war that is unwinnable
U.S. and Iraqi casualties continue to mount in a war that is unwinnable -- politically, if not militarily
This stupid, ill-conceived and unnecessary war is unwinnable and wrong, and it must end
Posted by Rock Heals at June 14, 2006 05:00 AM
