Fellow Marine, Gulf War veteran and libertarian activist Thomas L. Knapp on NewsClip: Way to win hearts and minds, bozos …:
Don’t get me wrong. War is war, and it is indeed hell. The resistance isn’t going to stop resisting for Ramadan, and the occupational forces can’t just give their guys a 28-day furlough in the expectation that nothing will be happening.
But it’s not just the resistance that matters, if the goal is, as alleged, “democratizing” or even “pacifying” Iraq. What matters is 27 million Iraqis whom the US forces allegedly want to get hooked on mom, baseball and apple pie. Does timing a major offensive to coincide with Islam’s holy month strike anyone as the best way to win friends and influence people? No, it didn’t strike me that way either.
What he said.