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Fast Paella
"Paella is a snap when you use precooked turkey sausage, precooked shrimp and pouch rice," says Colleen Weeden, Test Kitchen project supervisor. Serve this delicious dish with warm, crusty bread to sop up the juices at the bottom of your bowl.
Mexican Chicken Meatball Subs
Although this recipe looks long, the sandwiches are actually quite efficient to make, even on a weeknight, because you saute the veggies while the meatballs bake.
Loaded Greek Chicken Pizza
Frozen spinach-artichoke dip is the secret ingredient in this fabulous pizza that delivers an authentically salty punch of kalamata olives and feta cheese.
Italian Dinner Soup
Gail Gladding-Pullara of Oregon, Wisconsin, created this simple, crowd-pleasing soup. "My family loves this recipe," she says. "It's easy and tastes like you've been cooking for hours."
Pineapple Chicken Stir-Fry
Garden-fresh veggies and juicy pineapple give classic stir-fry a seasonal refresh. For an easy substitute, switch the chicken for thinly sliced boneless pork or peeled, deveined medium shrimp.
Blue Cheese and Balsamic Chicken Pizza
Topped with blue cheese, mushrooms, sun-dried tomatoes and a balsmic-spiked tomato sauce, this potent pizza has definite adult flavor.
Potato Chips Meet Fish
How do you get your family to eat fish? By serving them tilapia coated with potato chips, herbs and honey-mustard dressing, says Diana McMillen, senior food editor at Midwest Living®.
Waldorf Chicken Salad
All the traditional Waldorf ingredients are here: apple, grapes, walnuts, celery and mayo. This is a great choice to pack for weekday lunches.
Garlic Pork and Sweet Potato Hash
Get dinner on the table in 30 minutes with this one-skillet pork and sweet potato recipe.
Simple Salsa Skillet
For a change in routine, substitute green salsa for red in this easy Mexican-inspired meal.
Pineapple Barbecue Chicken Pizza
We updated the modern-classic barbecue chicken pizza by adding sweet, juicy pineapple.
Quick and easy chili
Ground Beef and Salsa Chili (left) uses a variety of canned ingredients for a fast-fixing chili. The recipe is from The Dakota Diner in Webster, South Dakota.
Another quick chili is Chunky Chili Supreme, a recipe from a reader in Phillips, Wisconsin. Purists might question the black-eyed peas, but our reader's family loves the combination of flavors.
Peppery Beef with Mushrooms
Prepare this hearty main dish even faster by using prepared ingredients such as purchased steak seasoning and presliced mushrooms. A quick side dish: Easy Roasted Red Potatoes.
Raceway Blackened Chicken
Serve this Cajun-style chicken with sides of rice and vegetables, or embellish it with a refreshing avocado and papaya salsa. Why "Raceway" chicken? It's from the chefs who cook for Indianapolis' Pennzoil Panther Racing Team.
Coconut Chicken Noodle Bowl
Ready in 25 minutes, this restaurant-style noodle bowl is a breeze to throw together. It uses Vietnamese bahn pho noodles, which you can find at large supermarkets or Asian groceries. It's fine to substitute another rice noodle or vermicelli.
Season's Best Shrimp Parmesan
Spoon this creamy, rich shrimp sauce over rice or pasta. It's a specialty from Cafe Beignet in St. Charles, Missouri.
Easy Potato Soup
This quick and easy recipe, from a Halstad, Minnesota, farming family, features just five ingredients and can be on the table in 15 minutes.
Garden Veggie Linguine with Cilantro Pesto
You can customize this linguine recipe by substituting other in-season vegetables and herbs, such as asparagus, snap peas, spinach or mustard greens, tarragon and basil.
Grilled Salmon with Pistachio-Basil Butter
A mixture of fresh basil, pistachios, lime juice, garlic and butter tops easy grilled salmon. Store leftover pistachio-basil butter in your refrigerator for up to a week; toss with hot pasta or spread on toasted French bread.
Let your family or guests build their own filled tortillas, tucking favorite condiments inside. The recipe comes from Manny's Restaurante Mexicano in Kansas City. Although Manny makes his pico de gallo, chili sauce, refried beans and Mexican rice, you can substitute purchased products.
Spa Shiki Stir-Fry
At Spa Shiki at the Lodge of Four Seasons in Lake Ozark, Missouri, guests are served the meatless side-dish version of this colorful and fresh-tasting recipe. Add 2 cups cooked chicken to make it a main dish.
Midwest Corn Chowder
Here's a reduced-fat, yet delicious version of classic Midwest Corn Chowder, made without butter or whole milk. Serve with a salad or fruit for a light dinner, or with a sandwich for heartier appetites.
Four-Vegetable Chicken Stir-Fry
Chinese chili oil gives this Asian chicken dish extra pizzazz. A mix of broccoli, snow peas, carrots and celery keeps the calories and fat low but the flavor high.
More great Midwest Living main dish recipes

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Nitpick: memory size is typically calculated in gibibytes, not gigabytes. Otherwise you'd have to say "I have 8.4 GB of RAM!".for those with modern computers having several Gigabytes of system memory.
Phoronix: Ubuntu Linux Considers Greater Usage Of zRAM
Ubuntu developers and users have brought back up the matter of zRAM and using it as part of the default Ubuntu Linux installation in some intelligent manner...
Nitpick: memory size is typically calculated in gibibytes, not gigabytes. Otherwise you'd have to say "I have 8.4 GB of RAM!".for those with modern computers having several Gigabytes of system memory.
Yeah, strictly speaking a gigabyte is 10^^9, not 2^^30, although it gets used both ways. The term "gibibyte" (BInary GIgaBYTE presumably) is being promoted for the 2^^20 definition.
That feels wrong somehow, although I guess "you know what I mean" isn't a good foundation for a technical standard
Personally I set KDE to use the SI system (1 kB = 1000 B) for all the file sizes. It's apparently default on Mac OS X as well. It makes little sense to count file size in powers of two to begin with, it just causes confusion, especially when dealing with large files. Though it does make sense for RAM, because its modules come in sizes of powers of two.
And yea, Windows, last time I checked, still incorrectly labels "MB" and such even if it really means "MiB". Though I'm not sure if it was changed in Windows 8 or not. Probably not.
I need an explanation about zRAM.
If I understand it well, it will use RAM instead of disk for swapping/paging, right?
Swapping happens when the system runs out of RAM and needs more. Then it will save some of the RAM contents on disk, free that RAM portion and use it. OK so far?
So a system with a lot of RAM will never need to swap, or need it very rarely. A system with very little RAM will swap pretty soon. Now, if you use zRAM, you make swapping just happen earlier. How is this good at all? Yes, you're swapping to RAM, but you might as well use that RAM directly and have no need for swapping.
Say you have 1GB of RAM and devote 256MB to zRAM. Now you have 768MB available. When the system needs 900MB, it will use part or your zRAM as its swap area. If you didn't have zRAM, the system would have accessed RAM directly: no need to swap. If the system needs 2GB, it'll swap to disk anyway, since the 256MB of zRAM will be of no use in that case.
I'm confused. I'm definitely missing something. I'd appreciated an explanation.
Last edited by Aleve Sicofante; 12-08-2012 at 09:22 PM.
But zRAM is COMPRESSED. So imagine the system can put 512MB of data into that 256MB pool. Suddenly you have like 1,25GB of RAM. Yes, there is a tradeoff. Those 512MB can't be accessed directly by the kernel and the compression/decompression takes some CPU time. However, the theory says that even this is still faster than swapping to physical disk.
Are you talking about 100B.01 ? If so, doesn't that only cover microprocessors and memory where binary interpretation is the norm ?
Most of the other standards (which need to deal with memory, disk, networking, etc..) seem to be heading towards interpreting GB as decimal and using something like GiB for binary.
Maybe we should use JGB (Jedec GigaByte) or MGB (Memory GigaByte) for binary and GB for decimal
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I just say "gigs" to avoid the problem.


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With magic number at four, Braves tab Teheran
In rubber game, Padres send Smith in search of first career win
With his team's magic number to clinch the National League East over Washington at four, Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez admits that it's been difficult not to check how the Nationals are doing.
"It's hard not to watch scoreboards, but we have to win what's in front of us," Gonzalez said. "That's what it's all about."
They'll look to get one step closer Sunday against the Padres in the series finale at Turner Field.
Julio Teheran, who starts for Atlanta, has a 2.45 ERA in nine starts since the All-Star break. Against the Marlins on Tuesday, the right-hander won his second straight start, allowing three runs -- all in the first inning -- on five hits in 6 2/3 innings.
"I was feeling good after that inning and I was trying to do the same thing that I've been doing," Teheran said. "I was trying to be aggressive with the hitters and show everything I have."
Against the Padres earlier this season, Teheran allowed five runs on six hits in six innings and took the loss.
Meanwhile, San Diego's Burch Smith will be on the hill in his first career start against Atlanta, looking for his first Major League victory.
Smith was recalled from Triple-A Tucson on Sept. 2 for his fourth stint this season. Over 18 starts between Tucson and Double-A San Antonio, he went 6-3 with a 2.63 ERA.
In his previous outing Sept. 6 against the Rockies, Smith went five innings and allowed two runs on four hits. He also struck out seven and walked four in the no-decision.
"It definitely wasn't pretty," Smith said after the game. "I'd like to do it a little bit better, cut down on the walks, definitely. But it was good to at least get through five innings and battle."
Padres: Kennedy not fretting about home run totals
• While right-hander Ian Kennedy never likes giving up home runs, he never gets too worried about it in games he's pitched well.
"Maybe if I'm missing my spots, it would bother me," said Kennedy, who is known as a fly-ball pitcher. "But it's something that's going to happen."
That was the case Friday when Kennedy allowed a solo home run to the Braves' Justin Upton and a two-run home run to Brian McCann in the fourth inning. Those two shots marked home runs No. 24 and 25 he's allowed this season. That ranks him second in the NL in home runs allowed.
"I felt pretty good about the way that I threw the ball," he said. "That's a tough lineup. That's a home-run hitting team. I felt the command of my fastball down was good. I threw a lot of fastballs, which helped my changeup."
Braves: Heyward continuing to build up strength
• Outfielder Jason Heyward (fractured jaw) took part in pregame warmups with his teammates for the second consecutive day Saturday.
"Each day on the field, it's going to begin to come back more and more and more," Heyward said. "I've been swinging in the cage just to be ready for these past two days, and now the outdoor process begins, just getting ready to do things physically outside on the baseball field."
While Gonzalez was happy with Heyward's work in the cage, he isn't ready to set anything in stone about the team's plans to send Heyward to the Instructional League next week to see some live at-bats before he is activated.
Worth noting
• Outfielder Will Venable, with 22 home runs and 19 steals, is one stolen base shy of marking the 10th 20-homer, 20-stolen base campaign by a San Diego player.
• Braves starting pitchers have turned in a quality start in 25 of the team's last 36 games (since Aug. 3) and lead the NL with 92 quality starts this season.
Quinn Roberts is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Leah Day, prolific quilting teacher and author of 365 Free Motion Quilting Designs, applies her skills to the 20-block sampler created in the 2012 Craftsy Block of the Month. Whether you're working on your Craftsy Block of the Month top, another unfinished quilt top, or just practice blocks, you'll want to master the elegant and easy designs Leah's chosen to add depth and dimension to your quilts. Rookies, professionals and every quilter in between will appreciate Leah's intricate work, generous tips and empowering approach to making everybody a confident free-motion quilter.
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"I struggled with fmq for a long time. I bought several books, took a class at a quilt shop, and took an online class on another website. Nothing inspired me to keep at it until taking this class. Leah is an incredible teacher and even greater motivator. I have several quilt tops that have been hanging around my spare bedroom begging to be quilted and now I am inspired to give them the attention they deserve. This is an excellent class for anyone who is new to fmq. There is a lot of information but it is not overwhelming and Leah's style of teaching will keep encouraging you. Highly recommended!"
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Thursday - 12/13/2012, 6:12pm EST
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Ever since the Federal Employees' Retirement System launched 25 years ago — replacing the longstanding and generous Civil Service Retirement System — federal employees have been plagued by a persistent question: Which system is better?
As part of the special series, FERS: 25 Years Later, Federal News Radio welcomed to its studios a retired federal couple, Neil Schiff and Linda Habenstreit, who represent the federal retirement divide. They joined The Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Emily Kopp Thursday to talk about their retirement experience.
When Schiff retired from the FBI's Office of Public Affairs, he was a FERS enrollee. His wife, a long-time public affairs specialist in the Agriculture Department's Foreign Agricultural Service, was covered by CSRS.
Neal Schiff and Linda Habenstreit in the Federal News Radio studios.
Though they both began their federal careers before the modern FERS era, Schiff left government service for a job in the private sector in the early 1980s, returning after the new system went into effect. And because he had fewer than five years of creditable service, he was automatically funneled into the new system.
"It would have been nice (to return to CSRS), but as it turned out, I was put in FERS," Schiff said. "It's fine. It's worked out very well."
He said he thinks CSRS offers a better overall plan, but he understands why the promise of cost-savings led the government to create and adopt FERS for new employees.
Despite whatever confusion may arise because each half of the couple draws different retirement benefits, Habenstreit stressed that both consider themselves fortunate.
"We're very lucky to have worked in the federal government and have good annuities. They're both good programs," she said, citing the options they offer employees. For example, even though she is in CSRS, Habenstreit has made contributions to the TSP, she explained.
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Wanted: A Teaching Church
from Daniel Hyde May 06, 2015 Category: Articles
The Bible is the Word of God. All Bible-believing evangelical churches affirm this. In historic Protestantism, there is a theology of the Word that not only professes sola Scriptura but also professes the sufficiency of Scripture for all things concerning doctrine, worship, and godliness. What the church of the twenty-first ... Keep Reading
The Meaning of Man's Will (pt. 2)
from R.C. Sproul Jun 18, 2009 Category: Articles
The Bible teaches, some will say, that we do not always do what we want to do. The apostle Paul laments in Romans 7 that the good he would do he does not do, and the thing he does not want to do is the very thing he does. Paul's frustration over the wretchedness of his condition would seem totally to refute Edwards's thesis of the relationship of choice to desire. Paul, however, is not giving expression to an analysis of the causal relationship between desire and choice. He is expressing a profound frustration that centers on the complex of desires that assault the human will. Keep Reading -
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from R.C. Sproul Jun 17, 2009 Category: Articles
The term free will as applied to man is often glibly declared with little or no understanding of its meaning. There is actually no unified theory of man's free will, but a variety of competing, and often conflicting, views about it. Keep Reading -
The Genuine Life
from Scotty Smith Jun 16, 2009 Category: Articles
With three decades plus change in the pastoral ministry, the gospel seems to be getting bigger and Jesus is appearing more gracious than ever. Maybe that's because I've never been more aware of my brokenness and more disrupted by longings for the day when the already of the kingdom capitulates to the not yet of shalom. Can it really be that we're destined to be as lovely and as loving as Jesus? (1 John 3:1-3). That promise has singular sustaining power when the inward groans of spiritual childbirth feel more like a tumor than a treasure (Rom. 8:22-25). Keep Reading -
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from Justin Taylor Jun 15, 2009 Category: Articles
Only one book is absolutely essential to save us, to equip us to obey God's will, and to glorify Him in whatever we do. Only one book gives us undiluted truth -- the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Only one book serves as our ultimate and final authority in all that it affirms. That book, of course, is the Bible, God's Holy Word. No wonder John Wesley once exclaimed, "Let me be homo unius libri" -- a man of one book! Keep Reading -
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from Chris Larson Jun 13, 2009 Category: Articles
As many people now know, the year 2009 marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of John Calvin, one of the most important figures in Western civilization. Through his faithful ministry of writing, preaching and teaching in Geneva, Calvin left a legacy that continues to impact the world to this day. Dr. Sproul ascended into the high pulpit in St. Pierre and reflected on the life and work of John Calvin, focusing in particular on his work as the theologian of the Reformation. Keep Reading -
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from Keith Mathison Jun 13, 2009 Category: Articles
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from Robert Rothwell Jun 12, 2009 Category: Articles
When I was about four or five years old, my mother found the letter "F" scribbled in crayon on the hallway wall of our home. Since my brother would have been about three and my sister barely a year old, it was clear that I was the culprit, for I had been learning to write in preschool. Therefore, my mother asked me who wrote on the wall so that I might come clean about my misdeed. Keep Reading -
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Nations are currently experiencing the most volatile economic period in a generation. Many investors here in America have made moves to reduce their risk and put their treasure into securities backed by the U.S. federal government. The government gives us its word that it will guarantee deposits up to a certain amount. If that institution falters, will our financial peace of mind endure? Keep Reading -
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Name: Madara Uchiha
Nickname:The Geezer
Gender: Male
Age: 100+
Looks: *insert dinosaur like Hashirama*
Personality: Hashirama was shown to be a very calm and collected person, as well as kind and caring, with a deep sense of loyalty, great charisma and negotiation skill. He saw the people of Konoha as a part of his own family, and his legacy took a firm root in the village. He was also shown to be a very wise and insightful man, as he passed on great teachings to Hiruzen. It was he who first believed that all Konoha shinobi should show true loyalty to each other, and that a Kage must be willing to put his life on the line for his village to set an example for all others. This belief of his is known as the "Will of Fire". Hashirama also seemed to have a sense of honour regarding his opponents and, despite their rivalry, possessed great respect for Madara Uchiha.
Village Info.
Village of Birth:Konoha
Village of Alliance: Kumogakure
Rank//Chakra Info.
Ninja Rank: Hellsbadass
Specialty: Alzheimer, Wood
Elements: Water
Your ninjutsu:
Background Info.
Hashirama is well known and written down in many history books but no ones knows the really truth. Hashirama and madara were actually best of friends. they fought at the valley of the end which killed madara whom every body thought even Hashirama thought that madara was killed by his hands. many years passed Hashirama discovered that madara is still alive, so they befriended once more. Hashirama faked his death and ran away with madara. They grew old(er) and they release that they wont survive so Hashirama connected madara and himself to the tree of life so that they live forever!!! Hashirama is constantly walking around with tubes in his back and sh*t.Due to his Specialty in Alzheimer he is able to forget about pain literaly.When he snezees he breaks some of his ribs due to his intense breating.HE must sit and rest every 3 minutes for 10 minutes.If touched he will disperse and turn into ash.Immuned against smell sensory due to full diapers.
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You'll turn six as the sun rises tomorrow. What a thing to contemplate, this Six.
You were bald forever, you know, do you remember? From pictures, Love-love, do you remember how long you were bald? And now your hair reaches to your waist. Sometimes, I wish you'd want to keep it short, like your sister, because oh.my.goodness the knots and the brushing and the braiding and the one pony tail or two, the side-pony and the half-up and the did you put the purple band on the left side or the right?
But you're so proud; you feel fancy. And then we see someone who's known you forever and they say, every time, "look at all that hair!" because they remember when you hadn't any, and when you told everyone you'd grow it until it could tuck into your shoes. Now you only want to grow it to your knees, and that's because you're a little bit turning into a rational creature, and no wonder, since you're almost Six.
There is a boy at school who wants to marry you. Every time I see him he tells me that I have ten hours to get ready for the wedding. He points to my Nikon, puts his arm around you, and says, "take a picture of me with my wife!" And you giggle, and pose for a picture, one I now must take.
Maybe you giggle because of the pride in his voice as he hugs you. Maybe your giggle is for this boy. Maybe it's just because it feels good to be so comfortable at your new school after Five and all the changes Five brought.
You're not thinking about boys, really, except to tell me that you're not getting married. But if you do, you have the whole wedding planned out, and don't worry, Mama, because you're never leaving me. He can just move into the house with us because I'm staying with you forever.
And you say that and I squeeze your shoulder, much like that boy does, and I say "you might have other ideas one day, you know, but you will always have a place here with us for as long as you need one." And you hear what you need to hear from that and I've said what I need to say in that. I don't know what you dream when we hug. I dream that when Then happens, which is, don't worry, many years past Six, you'll mostly want to go meet the world and leave your mama.
It will always be okay if part of you wants to stay a little bit. But be a dream chaser, Booshk. One day. When you're ready.
I will tell you this: I will never tease you about your dreams. And I will never tease you about boys, either, not even cute-goofy ones who think a girl as fancy as you could throw together a wedding in ten hours.
Although, for what it's worth (which is just a sliver above nothing), for the record-for posterity-for cementing that new key of giggle in my mind: this boy is cute. And I have the pictures for you to prove it, although now you're old enough to remember things in your own mind, now that you're Six.
Last year, when we talked about how Five is a bridge between big-little kid and small-big kid, we could only imagine the you of today. Let me point out, Love-love, the you of today is one awesome chick. The hardest thing of this year was leaving your preschool home and moving to kindergarten but girl, you've conquered that transition. Your teachers love you. You have a whole crew of sweet new friends. You're learning and reading and spelling and speaking in a second language. You rock the kindergarten house, sweet girl. You can see yourself in a new context, asking questions about first grade and middle school and driving. You understand that you're at the beginning of a new long road, and that it will challenge you and fascinate you and take you many wonderful places.
You lost your first baby teeth this year. You started to try new foods after years of refusing new anything. (You still haven't liked any new foods, but I'm so delighted you'll try things again.) You've explored forming your own worldly opinions and drawing independent conclusions. You are a thinker.
Last week you said to me:
you know why we need our eyes? Because our brains are filled with little boxes. And every box holds another idea. We have so many ideas that we could never organize them all without a system. So we draw pictures on the boxes. Those pictures are the things we see with our eyes that remind us of the ideas. I need to see because I have so many ideas and I never want to lose any of them!
Reach, baby. We spent so long planning for the end of Five. Tomorrow you say goodbye to all of that. Six is a new story for you to write. You can do anything. You and your many ideas and your compassionate, colorful, sensitive, broad-thinking viewpoints: you are going to change the world.
I don't know how you're going to do that, Love-love, and I know it frustrates you to hear open-ended positive thoughts without the foundational hows underpinning them. But you've left behind the little-kid world of questions that come with straight answers. And why stick to straight lines when you can frame your world in curclicues and smiling hearts and rainbow curves and fairytale ribbons?
You're the luckiest person in the world tomorrow, because you're Six and can mold the whole world to your touch. But I'm the second-luckiest, because I get the pleasure of watching you do it.
Happy birthday, Booshkin Boo. I love you all the way to forever.


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Lexington may have started an important discussion about the United States and the rest of the world,
"Today, the legacies of recent wars linger,but in a confused tangle."
MySetDancer asks "so why this article?"
The reason Lexington's piece is important, is that the tangle is very confused and most Americans don't realize the history of the past 20 years is very confused.
My take on Lexington's piece is that Gulf War One gave Americans
a false sense of success and superiority.
When a four day war produces ticker tape parades, we're all in trouble!!!
I don't know anyone who mentions the First Gulf War (FGW) in any context. Seriously, no one seems to be spending any time thinking about it or talking about it. So why this article? I think a handful of people keep chatting-up the topic while the rest of Americans simply don't care. I don't. I am sure my neighbors and co-workers don't.
The Foolish Second gulf War (FSGW) is a different issue as only a handful of far-right nutters still repeat the lies which sucked us in. Aside from one nutter, I don't know anyone who supports the FSGW (and I confess that I derive some glee from asking people if they told their elected representitives to not invade, as I did).
The FSGW will ultimately eliminate any residual positives from the FGW as America eventually accepts the fact that it is just another version of Vietnam, only with sand. The memories of the FGW and the FSGW have merged into a blur. Americans never seem to learn.
Excellent article.
What GWI and GWII should have taught any rogue regime on this planet is that you don't mess with Uncle Sam, and that you can't win in the long run: Your options these days are either to survive for a while, or get crushed and replaced.
But rogue regimes don't necessarily learn effectively, and they often follow a logic of their own, typically focused on pointless 'Defiance'.
I think your post may be a little off-topic but I would like to comment that the U.S. lost in Vietnam, Somalia, Lebanon, Iraq, and Afghanistan. And if Israel has its way the U.S. will also lose in Iran.
In a desperate full-on slugging-match the U.S. is indeed a terrible foe. Otherwise, the historical record is less clear. We should focus on when to walk-away, and when to get involved. And if we get involved, we need to know exactly what we are doing and what the achievable goals are, and have an exit strategy if the situation changes in a way that we can not cope with.
Being smart is better than being dumb, and crushing the enemy is not always possible.
"Being smart is better than being dumb" is indeed a very deep thought.
To the point - You and I must be living on different planets.
The US lost neither the first nor the second war in Iraq. The opposite is true - we won both wars big time.
The American policy vs Iran is not dictated by Israel or by any particular party. It is the outcome of what the US defines as its National Interest, and of opportunities that present themselves.
Clearly, as with Saddam's Iraq, the US national interest is to stabilize and pacify the Middle East, and in this perspective the Iranian regime is a grave source of threat and destabilization forces, not just in an Israeli context, but in a Persian / Arab gulf context, as well as in a global context.
In fact, the US and the Iranian regime have been engaged in a war by proxy for decades, regardless of which party was in power in Washington.
Lebanon and Somalia weren't wars, they were merely limited military operations. The same is true for Afghanistan, where the real problem is that the country lacks sufficient social, economic, and political resources that could serve as a basis for nation building. Afghanistan is not even a failed state, since no proper state ever existed in that country.
And last but not least, as this article rightly points, GWI cured America from its Vietnam syndrome.
Plus, most dictators are happy just to 'survive for a while'. Long enough to get enough cash to disappear to some deserted island, leaving their mother country in ruins.
The definition of won or lost is too grey for either Pez or Dancer to make an ultimate claim to. The article clearly demonstrates this you two. The FGW wasn't won because in fact there was a SGW, as Saddam remained in power. You can't say we lost the SGW, because Saddam was driven from power. Though there were no WMD's which pissed America off because we were lied to by the Bush Administration and that's the only reason we invaded(and to this day guys like Rumsfeld still try to convince us otherwise, ugggh!). Obviously the Iraqi government is a shell of what the Baathist government was, and sectarian violence keeps the nation a step away from a failed state.
What's important here is that the Powell Doctrine dictates something that neither war bothered to have dictated before they were started. That is, that you need a clear political objective. In other words, yes America's present day leaders are so dumb that actually needed a doctrine to tell them, if you go to war, make sure you have a clear goal.
By "Uncle Sam" you, of course, mean the Wall Street / K Street / Pentagon Axis. America wouldn't invade other nations unless the plutocrats project a profit therefrom. Killed and maimed Americans and many others don't matter. I've been around the world four times. Nearly all of the hundreds of people I have come to know hate America - usually for similar reasons. Except for the politicians who gain so much financially from our meddling, the world wants America to stay out of its affairs. They know that we only bring death, destruction, and economic ruin.
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The first Gulf war: Viet Nam, Saddam and other ghosts:
I remember my own reaction to the first Gulf war. The Denver Post published a long article about the efforts of local church groups to help children cope with the horrors of war. WHAT???? I had just finished reading a book detailing the miseries of the London Blitz in WWII. And we were all upset about the effect of a conflict that lasted slightly longer than a bad head cold?
It merely served to remind me how sheltered, pampered and ignorant we are here in America.
Can you explain what is so offensive about a church trying to help children cope? Seriously, what is your issue? Should we do nothing because we perceive someone else in another time may have suffered more? The blitz was a picnic compared to the bombing of Dresden or Warsaw. So should the Brits have done nothing?
Seriously you just compared a war to a head cold?!? Talk about pampered and ignorant. Just because enough people didn't die for your taste doesn't mean you have to completely hollow out your heart.
Occuppying a land against the will of the people, Saddam was obviously the bad guy and America did the right thing by liberating Kwait.
The right of Serbia to occupy Kosovo - won a century ago during the First Balkan War - is also disputed and the USA supported the Kosovars.
In Tibet, Palestine, Jammu and Kashmir this is not so obvious the case for China, Israel and Pakistan/India/China, but many would say so.
Some peoples in the Caucasus - Chechenya, Ossetia and Abkhazia - or in Siberia will think the same about the Russians ot the Georgians.
Nevertheless as the present unrest by native "Chilean" Mapuche tell, for many people in the American continets and in Oceania we, the European descendent speaking European languages and imposing our states. We - Brazilians, Americans, Russians, Bolivians, Australians... - we are the invaders that conquered Stone Age and Bronze Age peoples. OK, they were neither rich in oil nor strategic, nor symbolic of religious beliefs..
Oh, buddy, we all came from Africa. You ought to know that. So, the rest of it is just pissing and moaning ad infinitum, ad nauseam...
Compared to Iraq part 2 and Afghanistan, Iraq 1 was a resounding success - Saddam was kicked out of Kuwait with minimal casualties, the US maintained international support from a broad coalition including many Arab countries, and the financial cost was minor. I heard George H W Bush speak once about why he did not go on to Baghdad in 1991 - he said a) I had no plan for occupation b) the Iraqis might turn and fight instead of running c) the international support would evaporate overnight and the US would be left fighting by itself. Too bad his son didn't listen.
Let those politicians declaring battle "on any country's behalf, for any stated purpose" be in the first line of attack. Or, at least, have their direct descendents in the line of fire for said battles duration.
Maybe if you'd mention that Iraq suffered 20 years war by the allies, these propagated myths about just and moral wars or lessons learned from Vietnam will melt down like clay in the rain. The sanctions on Iraq were an act of war, and the allies are responsible for all their outcomes, from deaths of children (about 0.5m from 91-96) to destruction of education and health systems of a poor developing country, like Iraq.
International law? Destroying a country and starving its population over 12 years under criminal sanctions and corrupt "Food-for-Oil" programs complies to international law? Only in America!
Popularity of armed forces? So, why middle-class kids don't fight for the country anymore? Why are soldiers being paid noble sums for their service?
Was the genocide committed by Hussein against the Kurds, Assyrians, Mandeans, etc., America's fault as well? How does that compare to any economic sanction?
Norman's conquest. Distrust all in who the impulse to punish is of command. General Norman Schwarzkopf, a soldier of historical equal put a prone of injustice in the name of the law. The invasion of Iraq was illegal of which to his shame Tony (war) Blair committed the blood of many. I remember listing to an American pilot on attacking Iraq, "It's like turkey shooting" . These poor people.
You seem a little confused. Saddam invaded two adjacent countries recognized by the U.N. His invading forces were duly forced-out and sent home after heavy losses. What is your problem? Talk of "illegal" in this context is silly.
91? more like 76
Ambiguity of opponent remains the biggest problem. In desert conflicts, it is easier to determine who you are fighting. Urban settings, like heavy vegatation, make it harder to decide who to kill. The preception of clarity is a necessary condition for popular support of a war.
Funny. How does sand help you determine which compound to assault? Does it help you differentiate between Taliban and local good-guy? Please, I want to know so I can inform our troops.
The article is 50 % right - only fifty percents - those other 50 % belong to silent victims of that Great victory . We Americans are as Diego Garcia natives -shafted by Media army to chew their allocated xxxx.
The coconut crab populations are dangerously low.
It's not only conservatives who wish the U.S. had taken Saddam out during the first Gulf war. Saddam came to believe that the reason the U.S. didn't remove him from power was because the U.S. thought he had nuclear weapons. And that's why he didn't let the U.N. weapons inspectors in when he didn't actually have them, he was trying to maintain the threat. And that led inevitably to the second Gulf war.
To be fair, the sectarian tensions would still have been there if Saddam had been removed from power then, and Iraqi society would still have gone through its violence and political growing pains. There was no good option for Bush the elder. But it was pre-9/11, and the extremist Islamic movement hadn't yet fully taken shape, so maybe some of the violence attending the occupation wouldn't have happened.
Perhaps they should have gone into Baghdad and finish off Saddam Hussein (Norman would have done that, I think) There would have been no need for the second, more controversial and more expensive war on Iraq.
You still don't get it, do you? There WAS no need (or justification) for the second war (i.e. regime change), neither in 1991 nor in 2003.
Justification? Mr. Nouzeg, the US needs a lot of things, but justification for their actions is NOT one of them. Just ask them.
Heh heh, good point. Still, perhaps Bush, Rumsfeld and Cheney would like to justify the deaths of thousands of young Americans to their parents?
Something like:
"Now we get our oil a lot cheaper and we have opened a nice new training ground for Al Qaeda recruits so we can better keep an eye on them. Thanks for sending us your sons & daughters in good faith. We really appreciate the sacrifice. Please never wise up".
Interesting that Schwarzkopf appears to get so much credit for the relative success of the 1st Gulf War. When in truth he was only working within the framework provided by his superiors.
The real success is attributed to Bush Sr., Colin Powell and James Baker. They built a solid international coalition. They kept the same objective throughout without compromise. Most important of all they showed restraint when they were pressured and maybe tempted to go further.
The difference between how father and son operated, it couldn't have been more stark and tragic.
Those of us who lived through the Vietnam war understand the symbolism of Gen Schwarzkopf. He is a symbol of the opposite of the political inneptitude of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson who did not understand what they were getting into and in Johnson's case spent so much time dictating minutia about how the war should be conducted and contributed so much to the war being lost. Bush let the generals fight the war while he handled the heavy-lift politics.
I'll open with a statement that I certainly respect the service the General provided to US during his career. And he clearly showed his skill in planning and then leading while the plan was executed.
That said though, the praise heaped upon him for being a great strategist is unearned. He certainly was a great student of military history. As a result, he did not need to develop an innovative strategy. He in fact used strategy which was described thousands of years ago in "The Art of War" and demonstrated brilliantly, unfortunately, by the German blitzkieg in France in 1940. Quoting here from Wikipedia - "Initially the depleted French forces put up stiff resistance, but German air superiority gradually overwhelmed French artillery positions. German forces outflanked the Maginot Line and pushed deeper into France as French forces began to collapse." Sound familiar? Kind of like American air supremacy depleting the strength of Iraqi fixed positions for 6 weeks and then using a highly mobile force to outflank the line of fixed defenses Saddam had placed in the desert, cutting off Iraqi units and using air surpemacy to support their destruction.
Use your strenghts (in this case air power and mobility) and avoid the enemy's strengths (in this case fixed defensive positions and superior ground force numbers). A strategy known for thousands of years. How to do this in modern warfare? Demonstrated by Germany in WWII.
I'm sure I'll be called a lot of names for casting dispersion on Stormin' Norman. But again - Stormin' Norman was a credit to the country and a great leader. My issue is all these people who think he did something novel. Those who feel his strategy in Iraq was innovative simply don't know much history.
Nothing is so sad as an arm-chair general or a Monday morning quarterback.
GW1 was for a just cause , as Saddam had invaded Kuwait, a US ally.What about GW2? US and NATO have lost it out in Afghanistan because of GW2.Now Iraq is where it was in 2001.Ditto for Afghanistan in 2014.Post 9/11, USA had the sympathy and support of entire world.How is it now?
Fostering European "sympathy" is not a high priority for the U.S.
I realize that defending Hussein's actions rate about as high as defending Stalin, but to be honest I'm not 100% sure that he was unjustified in his invasion. The Kuqaitis were using directional drilling to tap into oil fields in Iraq, in essense they were stealing his oil out from under him. If Canada slant drilled into American oil fields, do you not think that the Americans would be moderately peeved?
He appealed to the US Ambassador to intervene and fix the situation or give him approval to fix it himself and he believed that he had received the go ahead from the US Ambassador to do so.
Given that Bush installed Hussein as President when he was the head of the CIA and given that he set-up and took down several of his operatives over time for personal gain (see Noriega and bin Ladin) it is not beyond suspect that Hussein was intentionally given a green light to invade just to set him up for a fall. Bush knew that Americans will always rally around a war president, but he forgot to time the war properly, he needed it to still be raging during the election.
The U.S. would never wage war against Canada with the casus belli being "slant drilling."
In any event, you seem to have a pretty easy time rationalizing invasion. I wonder if you can rationalize the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 as well. Certainly President Bush had more cause to invade Iraq than Hussein did to invade Kuwait. Yet, I'm sure your sympathy for invaders runs out when the aggressor is a western nation.
"The U.S. would never wage war against Canada with the casus belli being "slant drilling.""
This would be because there are organizations which would give the US legal recourse to seek compensation. Kuwait and Iraq did not have such a recourse. If Canada told the US to piss off and continued to slant drill the US would take great exception and likely would consider other options.
Don't get me wrong. Hussein was a "bad man". He was a very bad guy, to be honest. But there were certainly some considerations to look beyond the standard US PR reports.
There is no way you can possibly justify the invasion of Iraq. I will give you Afganistan, that was justifiable. It doesn't have anything to do with where the invading country is located. Invading a country that has not attacked you is illegal.
Did Kuwait attack Iraq? No. Therefore, "there is no way you can possibly justify the invasion of" Kuwait. You seem to have no problem apologizing for Hussein, but President Bush is a monstrous ogre. All of this left-wing, "blame America first, dictators later," loser-ism, is tiresome.
I didn't realize I was talking to Peewee Herman.
Kuwait was stealing oil from Iraq. I suggest that other routes could have been tried, but I can see why it happened. Understanding how it happened and suggesting that it is a grey area is not defending Hussein as being a nice guy.
The US invasion of Iraq was unprovoked. Iraq did nothing to the US, did not attack any one. Now we have hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis. You think that is ok because the US has democratic elections?
You wrote: "[i]nvading a country that hasn't attacked you is illegal." Your apparent "gloss" on that maxim: "only if you're the United States; I'm happy to think up excuses for dictators, but the U.S. is categorically wrong, all the time."
@ alex: no way to justify the invasion of Iraq? You must not know many Iraqi.
The way it looked to me, ex-pat Iraqis had been lobbying for years in Washington and anywhere else for help overthrowing the dictator. The effort finally worked.
You are going to actually sit there and make up things that I haven't said so you can argue against them? Really?
Given that the land of Iraq had been violated by hostile actions of Kuwait, I would suggest that it was a counter invasion.
Did, per chance, Iraq invade Brooklyn in 2002 and I missed it?
There are many invasions around the world to which I would object. Iraq happens to be one of them.
The US is not always wrong, but they often are. The US was right in Korea, wrong in Vietnam. The US was wrong in Panama, Grenada, and Iraq (to name a few). The US was right in WWII (though rather late in coming to that realization, seeing as how the rest of us had been fighting that problem for a number of years before they bothered to help out). WWI there is no right or wrong. It was just a bad situation all around.
The US was also wrong in the Phillipines, Hawaii, and when Perry sailed into Tokyo harbour. I can give you a longer list if you would really like it. Would you prefer to hear that France was wrong first in Vietnam? Or that France was wrong in Algeria and Tunisia? Or perhaps that Britain was wrong in Africa (as a whole) and India and China? That Britain was wrong in Ireland and the Middle East long before the Americans ever had a chance to screw the place up is beyond doubt. Britain and France and Israel were wrong during the disaster that was the Suez Canal (America was actually in the right on that situation).
History is full of situations that we can look at and say "Someone did something morally wrong there" and the 2003 invasion of Iraq will be one of those.
If it puts salve on your hurt feelings, America was right in Afganistan. I just think they screwed up the aftermath (though I'm not positive that that place could ever be fixed up properly).
Slant drilling is not a "hostile action," it's sharp business. I quoted your exact comment. Kuwait did not attack Iraq. Therefore, according to your rule, Iraq's invasion was completely and totally illegal. Yet, you're willing to think up some bogus conspiracy theory revolving around Bush wanting Iraq to invade Kuwait for some reason that would, no doubt, be the envy of many a super-villain, rather than blaming the dictator who used chemical weapons on his own people. It's absurd. The Bush Derangement Syndrome is truly devastating. It warps thinking beyond repair.
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The U.S. would never wage war against Canada with the casus belli being "slant drilling."
Canadians do not directionally drill across the border because it is illegal without permits on both sides. In any case, there are no locations where such projects would offer a reasonable return to Canadian drillers.
The US needs no justification for going to war, so the statement is irrelevant to any argument concerning the US and its wars.
Saddam could have filed a formal case with the International Court of Justice. But instead he invaded Kuwait AND Saudi Arabia. He then proceeded to brutalize the civilian polulation. Who respects that?
All your talk of conspiracy and "green light" is irrational.
Most EU leaderships supported directly or indirectly the coalition which fought the first gulf war. It was in the EU's direct interests to remove Saddam's army.
If Im not mistaken It pays rather well to suffer from all those new age post traumatic syndromes.You get a nice bump up in the payoffs from government hence this spike in all those tender tormented ex military souls seeking support,primarily financial one from the pentagon.
When there is no money or god forbid a "stigma" you see no post traumatism none at all.
I suspect this tender commenter has never been in a fire fight and likely has never served his country in any capacity other than that of disgruntled ass.
Well said, DDA.
Threeye, those soldiers who are sucking your coffers dry (to paraphrase what you said) fought for your freedom (if you are American) and were possibly wounded for it. Whether or not you're American, you're reprehensible.
But, thanks for adding your opinion to this page...you have clarified that you are an idiot instead of just allowing us to think that you are one.
You are right. All of those solidiers committing suicide after they come back are looking to boost their families income from the government. It is all a big scheme. [/sarcasm]
Neither have I ever been involved in a firefight. But lack of experience in such an event doesn't prevent someone from making valid commentary on the issue. If that were the case, it would be just as valid to claim if you weren't in a firefight you aren't qualified to determine if someone has PTSD - thus how many psychologists would be banned from making the diagnosis.
So despite my having never been shot at (though I was nearly killed by being run down by a boat during Navy Seal training demonstration I was participating in as a Midshipman) I'll render my observation on this issue. Hundreds of thousands or millions of Americans such as many uncles of mine were involved in firefights and worse in WWII. One of my uncles flew 49 B17 missions over Europe in 1942 and 43 including 1 where an antiaircraft shell tore through the cockpit incapacitating his co-pilot whom he had to pull off the controls before he could bring the bomber back into formation. Then he had to continue on the mission while his copilot's life was in the balance until he could get back to base (fortunately the copilot survived). Another uncle flew 25 B17 missions as a bombardier in 1943 and 44 - flying deep missions into Germany beyond the range of fighter protection at the time. This included the Schweinfurt-Regensburg raid with 1 out of 6 bombers lost and 1 our 4 of the remainder heavily damaged. Both these men amazingly are still alive, living happy and well adjust lives. And there were never gov't payments to them for PTSD.
I am not saying it doesn't exist and I am not saying that the WWII vets were just a tougher breed who were immune. But it is fair to ask how many cases are real and how many are just taking advantage of the situation. And it is also fair to ask is it something that is incurable or at some point do you move on and the disbaility payments ought to stop.
"Both these men amazingly are still alive, living happy and well adjust lives."
Some, but by no means all.
I think the point is that, if you're going to send 18 year olds off to war, you also have a responsibility to allow them to readjust to civilian life after the fact.
The problem with threeeyes' comment is that he appears to have stayed home while others fought his fight, and now doesn't want to pay the bill.
The sentiment is immoral, in my view, and hence the strong reaction by other commenters.
And it is immoral for those not truly suffering to be receiving benefits to the detriment of those who are. My problem is the often seen knee-jerk comments like "sure, some are faking but we shouldn't risk questioning the truly needy to weed out a few bad eggs, just pay off the guilty too". I have a real problem with such sentiment. First, in a world of limited resources and competing needs we have an obligation to ensure when we take a resource from the guy who worked to produce it that it really does some benefit. So due diligence in questioning all claims is justified and the truly needy should recognize that it isn't persecution - it's needed to protect those footing the bill AND those who are getting the benefit. Second, the sentiment above is often used as bat to beat down anyone who honestly questions whether their is justification for what is being paid. Just as you don't cut off the truly needy just because some people are abusing the system, you also don't silence the people honestly questioning the need just because there are some who simply don't want to pay for any reason.
I served in the Army at the height of the second Iraq war, and while I didn't see combat myself, I served with several guys who had. From what they tell me, the problem in their infantry unit was the opposite of what you describe: Guys hid that they were suffering from PTSD symptoms for fear that they would not be allowed to go back into the field with their unit. I would guess that for every false report of PTSD from a VA benefit-seeker there are ten unreported cases from veterans struggling on their own with depression, anxiety, alcoholism and the fractured relationships that these and other effects of PTSD bring about.
"And it is immoral for those not truly suffering to be receiving benefits to the detriment of those who are."
How do you know some are receiving benefits who are not truly suffering?
And, how do your define "truly suffering"?
I think if you look at tours of duty, the are orders of magnitude longer than during WWII on average. Compare general conscription and the 'voluntary' forces we have now. WWII was a conventional war, we took territory, eventually won, and that was that. Same with Dessert Storm. Vietnam and the two most recent wars never enjoyed the same terminus. Both were poisoned by starry eyed nonsense.
The military has also sharply changed how individuals fight.
You're right it doesnt really matter whether or not Im an american.I expect for troops to behave accordingly.I expect them to do their job or die trying.I dont want to see countless movies about their supposed heroism. Id rather watch a movie about hardships of landing a job working mad hours and on the end of it having to part with his money to pay for some losers who couldnt function in a real world.
There is an agreement between society and its "enforcers","defenders" "glorified thugs in uniform" or whatever.We pay you money so you dont have to work the fields,so you dont have to worry about housing,retirement etc in return you put yourself in harms ways and maybe die in necessary.Stick to this agreement or get out ot the profession.There is no draft you have a choice.
Obviously you feel strongly about this, so what prompted your point about military vets milking the government teat. Is fraud prevalent or something?
The rare stories I hear about military benefits and the VA seem to be the opposite: questionable care along with delays and red tape.
Some don't have much of a choice. We also know that many 18-year-olds do not have the intellectual maturity to face future choices rationally, when they even exist. Recruiters also tend to glorify aspects of the job. Once the signature is on the dotted line, the government "owns" the soldier for a minimum period of time, and recruiters' statements mean nothing. Some 18-year-olds are more suggestible than others.
The 18-year-old cutoff for "adulthood" is based upon what in particular? It's a rather arbitrary cutoff. Some 17-year-olds are more mature than some 19-year-olds. You can debate the metrics utilized to back that statement until you are blue in the face. Generalizations about age and its relationship to maturity are as crude as generalizations about race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, etc (I could go on and on) and their relationships to behavior.
What we are talking about here is not whether the volunteer soldiers are willing to die for their countries. Rather, we are talking about the psychological after-effects that some suffer, and whether treatment or compensation is necessary and/or deserved. I think you have missed the point. The bravery of many of these men and women is not in question. Rather, it is the end result of conflict for those survivors, physically wounded or otherwise, that is in question. We do not, to my knowledge, have an ability to predict this accurately 100% of the time. If we could, perhaps we could minimize the psychological trauma that some experience after their discharge from military life.
Sorry that you don't think that those who protect your freedom to write whatever you want on this blog, for example, are heroic. Sit back and count your money and continue bitching about the amount you have to give up so that these pathetic fools who protect your freedom can get paid for their non-heroic work.
I'm glad that there are truly heroic men and women who protect your ability to disseminate your reprehensible opinions to all. Sorry that you don't agree. I dislike what you write but I'm happy that you are able to write it. One day, thank a soldier who has protected your right to do that. Swallow your pride, if necessary, and do it.
Sorry Im not subscribing under this notion that there is somekind of war going on between evil and good, freedom and "communism" or "islamic fascism" or something else.
Howerver Im rather inclined to agree that small military involvements are rather good for economy.
Solders are payed too much.Taxpayers dont get their moneys worth. American solders( to be fair other countries military personnel suck as much or even more) are useless when it comes out to accomplishing their mission.They failed miserable in Korea they failed in vietnam they failed in iraq they have absolutely nothing to show for in afganistan.
What Im saying is there needs to be more accountability, more outsourcing.Hire some real professionals who are apt in killing and wont forward their shrink bills to taxpayers
You're incorrect. Vietnam has a 12 or 18 month tour than you were home and didn't go back unless you opted to. Also, 3 wounds and you were out. Current wars in in Iraq and Afghanistan are similar as fixed tour. However, you are correct that here that if you stay in and your unit is redeployed you will go again. But you can always quit when your enlistment is up - it is a volunteer military.
WWII - you were not going to quit and you were not going home until the war was over. Many served in fighting from Dec 7 1941 until Sept of 1945 and, in some areas of the Pacific longer than that. My father didn't enlist until 1946 but in the Phillipines his unit was still occassionally shot at by Japanese soldiers who didn't believe the war was over. So the idea that the likelihood of PTSD is higher today than WWII is not supported.
And again, I never said this did not exist. But unlike the generation which came through the Depression and WWII where the whole society was involved, greater portions of subsequent generations have the attitude that government (i.e. other tax payers) owe them a comfortable life and this breeds a situation where abuse of benefits happens more frequently.
Because I know of at least two people one with a physical problem and one with a mental problem who lied about their medical status to get accepted. Then when the stress of training and other service hit them, suddenly these problems became discovererd and blamed on the military. And now these people are both receiving benefits for life.
As for how I define truly suffering, I'm willing to accept a fair diagnosis of the problem. But a fair diagnosis means that the afflicted needs to cooperate with the tests and assessments required. What I see happening now is the argument that since the person might be afflicted we cannot stress them more by doing a proper diagnosis. So just pay anyone who claims to have a problem.
"...greater portions of subsequent generations have the attitude that government (i.e. other tax payers) owe them a comfortable life and this breeds a situation where abuse of benefits happens more frequently."
One could make the counter-argument that once the draft was eliminated, poor kids fought the wars in place of the wealthy (who supposedly pay the taxes).
One example: I heard recently that there is a place at Harvard where those who died in US wars are listed, and that after WW2 the numbers drop off significantly, to only one Harvard death in Vietnam, for example.
So, who's taking advantage of who?
"So just pay anyone who claims to have a problem."
My understanding is that VA benefits are much more stingy for the casualties of the US' recent wars, than this comment would indicate.
The difference over the years is the intensity of combat exposure over time. Also the military learned to overcome the inhibition to kill that they had not learned to train away in WWII.
The current wars see the same guys redeployed over and over again.
" But unlike the generation which came through the Depression and WWII where the whole society was involved, greater portions of subsequent generations have the attitude that government (i.e. other tax payers) owe them a comfortable life and this breeds a situation where abuse of benefits happens more frequently."
For the most part, I agree, however let's be clear here that it is corporations that sell these ideas, because it makes them money.
By far the Baby Boomers fall into this group having been brainwashed for most of their lives.
"[T]he Powell doctrine, as others dubbed it: have clear political objectives; use overwhelming force; maintain popular support."
Unlike the Rumsfeld Doctrine, used in the Second Iraq War:
Have no political objectives, use underwhelming forces, and ignore popular support.
You forgot the fourth element: turn the world opinion against you.
If incompetence was a crime, that senile fool would have already been hanged. He should have been born in Carthage or other ancient states that treated failure with capital punishment.
Agree. I also forgot the fifth element -
Be arrogant, condescending, and mistreat with whom you disagree.
I find this thread amusing.
I'm sure you all could have done a better job. And I agree, that "senile fool" should be hanged. He was a hundred times worse than that dictator he helped bring down. You remember the one who used chemical weapons and practiced ethnic cleansing.
Rumsfeld is in the unenviable position of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. The putz lost Iraq some quarter million civilians lives, and destituted the nation. But Haliburton made millions.
PS The Romans would have had him executed for that level of incompetence.
Ah, yes. Now add "corporate greed" to the equation and we now have a thread fit for Michael Moore.
What would the Romans have done to Hussein? I don't really care, but it seems to be the standard set by this thread.
Count bodies. Rumfeld had the higher count.
As for the Romans, in their heyday would have sent a seasoned general, and that is the difference.
Instead we sent Calligula.
All this while the Democrats AND Republicans voted for the war and then acted surprised when the truth was revealed that Saddam has tricked everyone and provided the cover to take him out. It is hard to say who the bigger idiot was: Saddam, Democrats, or Republicans!
I am so glad I wrote all my elected "leaders" before the war started telling them to not invade and that they would lose if they did. If the rest of you had done so it would have been politically impossible for the war to start as it did.
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@ divinebeast, come one. Lets keep it civil
I'm not being uncivil?
To be uncivil would be to call them dumb or something
I'm just suggesting that Vinny Del Negro poses as an ordinary Clippers fan on forums *shrug*
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