On track? Pig's bloody arse. The insurgents are on their own ground, they can afford to wait out any "surge" and anyone with half a brain knows it. It's a measure of the politicisation of this invasion and occupation that Bush and Cheney are desperate to "prove" to Americans that they haven't committed the biggest fuckup in US foreign policy. They have.
Now, about LE and military. In my country we separate the two and we make sure they're each different from one another. We haven't made a fetish of militarism although that hasn't stopped the odd idiot from trying to pass themselves off as a former serviceman (seems to be males who do this) to gain kudos on Anzac Day.
And about me being a fraud. Think what you will, it doesn't concern me. I don't expect anyone to give any weight to any of my remarks simply because of what I do for a job. I'll stand behind my views with evidence rather than some half-arsed appeal to my occupational status.
As for "turncoat", I have opposed this fuckup from it's "shock and awe" days when people were babbling about how wonderful the doctrine was. I asked - not here of course, I wasn't a member - if anyone remembered the Nazi doctrine of "blitzkrieg" - lightning war. Shock and fucking awe. What a fucking joke.
