Twenty Things We Now Know Four Years After 9/11
August 30, 2005
By Bernard Weiner, The Crisis Papers
WHERE WILL THE BODIES COME FROM?
We know that Bush's Middle East agenda also is suffering because the
U.S. military is spread way thin over Afghanistan and Iraq, the
desertion rates are high, soldiers are not re-upping at the usual
clip, recruitment isn't working and illegal scams are taken to lure
youngsters into signing up - in short, there are no military forces to
spare on the ground.
Either a military draft will be instituted or all future attacks will
have to come from air power or from missiles, which will merely
deliver a message, making the bombed populations even angrier at
America, and with no guarantee of success in forging U.S.-friendly
"democratic" governments in Iran, Syria, et al.
In short, we are witnessing the limits of imperial power in the modern
world.
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Harry
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