Friendly fire

[ksmith]

What an oxymoron.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2640071
(An article about the death of Pat Tillman)

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[juliabk.livejournal.com]

"While a great deal of discretion should be granted to a leader who is making difficult judgments in the heat of combat, the command also has a responsibility to hold its leaders accountable when that judgment is so wanton or poor that it places the lives of other men at risk."

This quote from the article is a fairly decent indictment against the entire Bush fiasco.

But back to Tillman's death.

In reading the article I was struck by something that was brushed briefly and then ignored. The lack of supplies and the lack of training. Why were these soldiers out there without adequate supplies? In all the reading I've done on military campaigns, in all the discussions I've had with soldiers and former soldiers, it has always been impressed upon me that supplies were the first order of business. "An Army marches on its stomach" isn't just a cute saying. The limited training has long been a problem, but I have a feeling it's worse now than it used to be.

Sadly, I can't help but think this is less about one person's screw up along the way and more about an endemic problem with our present military leadership... all the way up to our Fraud and Chief.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Afghanistan was the war that I feel needed to be fought. But Iraq bled the bulk of the attention and no doubt the bulk of the supplies as well.

Where did you get that icon?

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

Yep. Bush's Iraqi Adventure has much to answer for.

I got the icon from a friend who got it from a friend and so on and so on... :-)

Take it, use it in good health. :-)


Julia