Know your enemy
This article by Bob Herbert sums it up pretty well.
This is the height of absurdity.One of the things I remember from my time in the service many years ago was the ubiquitous presence of large posters with the phrase, in big block letters: Know Your Enemy.
This is a bit of military wisdom that seems to have escaped President Bush.
The United States was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, by Al Qaeda, not Iraq.
All Americans and most of the world would have united behind President Bush for an all-out war against Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. The relatives and friends of any troops who lost their lives in that effort would have known clearly and unmistakably what their loved ones had died for.
But Mr. Bush had other things on his mind. With Osama and the top leadership of Al Qaeda still at large, and with the U.S. still gripped by the trauma of Sept. 11, the president turned his attention to Iraq.
April 19th, 2004 at 9:00 pm
To judge by the 9/11 commission, the enemy is the U.S. government, not Al Qaeda.
April 19th, 2004 at 9:08 pm
Yes, it certainly has been policitised. But, that is on both sides. Unfortunately the Bush Administration default position is to deny, block and stall and even lie. It only makes ‘the other side’ more determined to trip them up.