Posted on Jun 7, 2014
What are your thoughts on Lt Gen Bolger's statement?
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A blunt, brutal assessment from Lt Gen Bolger that needs to be said.
“Both wars were won, and we didn’t know enough to go home” after about six months, Bolger argues. “It would have been messy and unpleasant, and our allies would have pissed and moaned, because limited wars by their nature have limited, unpalatable results. But what result would have been better — that, or this?”
http://time.com/109981/general-wars-afghanistan-iraq-why-we-lost/
“Both wars were won, and we didn’t know enough to go home” after about six months, Bolger argues. “It would have been messy and unpleasant, and our allies would have pissed and moaned, because limited wars by their nature have limited, unpalatable results. But what result would have been better — that, or this?”
http://time.com/109981/general-wars-afghanistan-iraq-why-we-lost/
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after reading the excerpt, I believe he gave a brutally honest assessment from his perspective....and agree with a lot of what I've read. The book is scheduled to be released on Veterans Day (tomorrow, 11 November 2014). I will read this book.
http://www.npr.org/2014/11/09/361746282/a-3-star-general-explains-why-we-lost-in-iraq-afghanistan
http://www.npr.org/2014/11/09/361746282/a-3-star-general-explains-why-we-lost-in-iraq-afghanistan
A 3-Star General Explains 'Why We Lost' In Iraq, Afghanistan
In his new book, a former Army lieutenant general compares the war on terrorism to Alcoholics Anonymous: "Step one is admitting you have a problem."
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Ahhh, now thats a General Officer after my own heart. I challenge you to find somebody in the military today that doesn't agree with those beliefs at some level. I won't claim to speak for anybody elses deployment, but mine in afghan in '11 was full of the "wtf are we doing here" feeling all around.
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I think it is true. We honestly didn't know enough about any of the societies that we went to and so we had to stay to find out information and learn. Eventually we had to help the people as well, after we learned there culture and figured out their needs and wants.
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