A COMMON TASK

The high hopes or, better yet, the hopeful hype prerequisite to Operation Arrowhead Ripper has come and gone without delivering the crushing blow to Al Qaeda proponents of The Surge had optimistically touted-- The scrapheap of met milestones, which did not provide a turning point to the ongoing disasters that began with Shock and Awe in Iraq, has just had one more impressive tombstone added to its pile--

General Petraeus is clearly a brilliant and very well educated commander who happens to be the right man for the right job at the wrong time and, in what has become incontrovertibly so, the wrong place--The bravery, courage, and skill of the US Troops is beyond question and first rate but rarely does valor alone, even of high order magnitude, or coupled to exceptional tactics save mistaken strategery either inept, or incompetent, or taken on a cavalier lark from the far side of history-- Taking ground and holding ground is a serious brutal process made more difficult by the beautiful abstractions and delusional prognostications emanating from naive think-tanks--



The Iraqis plain and simple do not want the Bush version of democracy or even the not so divergent Hillary version nor are the Iraqi troops, no matter how well trained, willing to immolate their desperate, hungry, and disrupted lives in order to implement it, no matter how brilliant its ideological glow appears to its propagators-- Nor do they want foreign oil companies to control their national oil-- A willingness to die to prevent the American Occupation from succeeding shows no real signs of abating--This is as basic and prevalent to the current situation as the omnipresent heat and dust of the Middle East that so many of our propagandists are so readily incapable of perceiving--



Refined technique at this stage of the game may have educational value for future conflicts that must be weighed against the ever upward climb of friendly casualties but current Victory will not be among its progeny-- Manhood inherently necessary to stand up in the face of this disastrous enterprise and take on the painfully bitter consequences that this, yes, humiliating folly and its acute failure engenders, appears seriously wanting in the aggregate leadership of America politically, industrially, militarily and, also, spiritually-- Before Redemption can accomplish its heavy lifting, the unadulterated need for repair must be fully recognized and shorn of all craven denial-- Until that manifests, the wounds of defeat will only fester against our common fabric-- The ties that bind can and will be loosened, or even torn asunder, should we fail this daunting demanding task-

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