Iraqi Damage Assessments Are DEVASTATING

[kpete]

The damage assessments out of Iraq and Afghanistan are devastating. So is a military officer's recent analysis of the way the Administration's handled one of the most critical strategic elements of the so-called "War on Terror": the battle to persuade the Iraqi and Afghan people that their future lies in building an enlightened, non-fundamentalist society.

These developments underscore the failure of the US to promote the democratic and sectarian values we were supposedly fighting to instill there. Poor decisions by the civilian leadership in Washington have put our military into wars it can't win - either on the battlefield, or in local hearts and minds.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/communication-breakdown-_b_26575.html