tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10983215.post244144188897116796..comments2023-10-22T05:41:44.891-07:00Comments on A psychiatrist who learned from veterans: Double Binds and the Way to True Peacea psychiatrist who learned from veteranshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00347313804041291393noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10983215.post-91471712050131547172013-02-25T05:22:24.510-08:002013-02-25T05:22:24.510-08:00I would prefer to weep for our troops, the Berber ...I would prefer to weep for our troops, the Berber and Muslim allies of the French, and those Iraqis and Vietnamese who give and gave for a greater nobility.Richardldvfhttp://www.velociworld.com/Velociblog/Oldvelocity/003842.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10983215.post-76241358596804715382007-04-01T13:19:00.000-07:002007-04-01T13:19:00.000-07:00I would prefer to weep for our troops, the Berber ...I would prefer to weep for our troops, the Berber and Muslim allies of the French, and those Iraqis and Vietnamese who give and gave for a greater nobility.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10983215.post-76180746096346383302007-03-31T06:12:00.000-07:002007-03-31T06:12:00.000-07:00So the commentary article suggests we copy the fre...So the commentary article suggests we copy the french in algeria -- who utterly lost. No, not copy the french, copy the story that a frenchman made up about how he'd almost completely won before the french government snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory. <BR/><BR/>Why follow his plan? Why not follow one of the american plans? One of the US plans that had almost completely won vietnam before the US government snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory?<BR/><BR/>We can tell stories about how we almost completely won as well as the french can.<BR/><BR/>However, the US public is probably not going to believe that we're winning. The US military has been telling them that we're winning for 4 straight years. After at least three and a half years of straight lying, why would they believe it now?<BR/><BR/>They're going to see that the new strategy has high US casualty rates, and they're going to think it isn't working. They won't see that arab casualty rates are 50 times ours. They won't see us doing airstrikes in cities, ensuring arab casualties as high as we want. They'll only see that we're losing soldiers at a higher rate than ever, higher than during the war against Saddam that we won in a few weeks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com