Frontline revealed in
'Rumsfeld's War'
how Bush's defense secretary made vicious and devastating war against the
Pentagon's proven doctrines and strategies,
doctrines and strategies which had been developed in response to our failure in Vietnam,
and proven overwhelmingly successful in Desert Storm under President Bush Senior.
Bedrock U.S. and Pentagon Doctrine before Bush/Rumsfeld:
No wars of Aggression, no unprovoked wars.
No war without clearly defined attainable goals.
No war without first gaining the support of the American People.
No war without first developing an exit strategy.
Never go in weak, Always use overwhelming forces on the ground.
The neocons Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld and Cheney,
immediately following the Gulf War more than a decade ago and long before 9/11
would give them their needed opening,
had already begun pushing hard for new doctines that would not stand
in the way of their radical plans for the middle east:
Pre-emption, instead of justification
Instead of clearly defined goals, declare perpetual war with impossible
goals, namely the complete elimination of evil everywhere.
Instead of seeking the support of the American People, deceive the American
People.
Instead of an exit strategy, blind faith that the people we just bombed
will fall instantly in love with us.
Instead of overwhelming American forces on the ground saving lives on
both sides of the conflict,
a proven war doctrine dating back thousands of years,
Rumsfeld fought the Pentagon generals for a chance to try out a new-fangled idea,
represented in Army recruitment TV comercials as 'Soldier of One'.
Inspired by the internet revolution,
the Rumsfeld doctrine naively claimed that a relatively small ground force of
soldiers can essentially play video games with the GPS units
and other electronic gadgets provided to the high-tech 'Soldiers of One',
directing 'Shock and Awe' bombings from the air with little or no need to
personally interact with the subjected population.
Thus,
Rumsfeld claimed,
our soldiers on the ground would have little need for body armour,
humvee armour,
or any of the other quint throw-backs to the days of real warefare.
The Pentagon,
refusing to develop Rumsfeld's naive kind of war plan for Afghanistan,
was sidelined while Bush opted for a CIA plan to capture only one city while dropping CIA paratroopers with suitcases of cash
(literally)
throughout Afghanistan to purchase the loyalty of the warlords.
The American people are still unaware that we only captured one city in Afghanistan.
The rest of the country is growing poppies and preparing to take back their capital from the United States.
It will descend into civil war. Hush hush, at least until November.
Under Bush Junior,
Rumsfeld fought relentlessly against the Pentagon doctrine of defining an exit strategy before going to war.
Rumsfeld won,
our soldiers lost their rights to go home at the end of their service obligations.
Rumsfeld fought relentlessly against the generals' insistence that hundreds of thousands of troops would be needed to occupy Iraq.
Less would mean looting,
chaos and
needless American casualties.
Rumsfeld won,
we lost the peace.
Rumsfeld fought relentlessly against the Pentagon's insistence that we must not abandon the Geneva Convention.
Rumsfeld won,
we lost the hearts and minds of Iraq and the Arab world at Abu Ghraib.
The neocons believed,
an 'obvious' American puppet regime in Iraq would not be tolerated by conquered Muslims,
but it would not be necessary anyway,
since Corporate dominated American Democracy provides the ideal model for
establishing reliable,
effective domination of the Iraqi people for generations to come,
while letting Iraqis play democracy in their sandboxes just like the naive
Americans back home,
too dumb to know that Corporate American Gods have now fully redesigned the
American way of life.
Yes, nation building is impossible if by that you mean trying to build
real grass-roots democracy.
But Bush/Rumsfeld,
and the other Neocons were not naive of one thing,
real grass roots democracy in any middle-eastern country would quickly turn Islamic.
Duh.
Fortunately for the Neocons,
Americans have forgotten the grass-roots origin of their own democracy,
and are clueless about the flow of power in America,
where power (cash) flows in torrents from corporations through lobbyists to polititians,
but drips through the ballot box so slowly that the people's power adds up
to a mere puddle.
Now that the Corporate/Bribery/State is secure at home,
the Neocons plan to export it around the world,
beginning with Iraq:
Shock and Awe march the Neocons,
conquering and to conquer,
Move in Haliburtion to establish real (financial) power,
Teach the little people to play democracy,
But don't touch the Oil and Wine!
And happily move on to liberate another victim.
Instead of true democracy,
U.S. multi-national corporations would dominate the finances of Iraq from the get-go,
rendering the up and coming Iraq democracy forever far weaker
than the Corporate stranglehold on the nation.
It took American democracy over 200 years to fall to plutocracy.
Now with no-excuse preemptive wars as far as the eye can see,
the Neocons would have us setup little plutocracies everywhere.
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