The Delusions of the “Powerful”
P. Schultz
May 29, 2013
This is a
link to an article in the NY Times today, entitled “Drone Strike Said to Kill a
Top Pakistani Taliban Figure.”
Does anyone
else not sense that while this appears to be an indication of the power of the
United States that it is, in actuality, just the opposite? I mean, think about
it: What if our leaders were being “picked off” one by one? I mean what
happened when the World Trade towers came down and the Pentagon was attacked?
Did that make us weaker?
Do these
leaders in D.C. really think that the situation in Pakistan and/or Afghanistan
will be remedied by such measures? After all, we tried the same thing in
Vietnam with the Phoenix program, which is reputed to have “eliminated” 20,000
Viet Cong, and the war was still lost. As the Vietnamese knew from their
history, defeat is not decisive. Surrender is decisive but not defeat. And if
our leaders think that the Taliban is going to surrender then they are as
delusional as I think they are.
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