Just as the Great Society didn’t work in our own country on our own people, the Great Society Abroad doesn’t work on alien peoples in foreign cultures, either. It didn’t work in Vietnam, as discussed here by the late Peter Braestrup, and it doesn’t work in Iraq or Afghanistan. This means that it’s not a military defeat that faces us on what I wish were imminent withdrawal from the umma (oh, happy day and good riddance), but rather another costly validation of the fact that social engineering doesn’t work, even with guns.
The civilian leadership and the military brass must be held accountable for this travesty."
Monday, January 17, 2011
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