The Blame Game

In case you missed it, like most of the rest of the world, the U.S. Army has come out with a new book.  It's called " Who Got Us Into This Mess, Anyway?"  It is an 696 page tome which seeks to discover what happened in Iraq.  If that seems a little vague, one only need consider the magnitude of the task.  It is officially called " The History of the Iraq War, Part 2.  In it, according to NPR, the army credits the current situation in Iraq to a failure of senior officers to sufficiently prepare for a post war strategy.   YA THINK?  The report  specifically blames General Tommy Franks for the course of the war because he changed the strategy of the war, 

a sort of martial coitus interuptus.    Apparently "military and civiilian leaders were too focused on military victory and lacked  a realistic vision of what Iraq would look like after 

Saddam Hussein's forces were defeated."

 Duh. 

 This is not news to anyone who was listening to the blogosphere since before this whole thing started.   What I find is amazing is that this story was the fourth story on NPR's morning newscast  ( $143 bbl oil, fires in CA, copter crash in AZ.)

Think about this!!  This is a stunning indictment of the Army, BY THE ARMY, of war policy.  

The Army blames  its leaders for bungled policy and mismanagement by its leaders.   The story is quietly trotted out, briefly mentioned, and then hastily put back on the shelf, with a sigh of relief.  (Whew, well, at least that's out of  the way!)

                   Why is this not being dragged across the sky by small planes?  This indicts Gen. Franks, but SHOULD go right up the chain of command, to You-Know-Who!  ( I'm not talking about Voldemort, either)  Why isn't Obama  discussing this from the podium?  Why do the bulk of Americans see this as less important than  $4.50 a gallon gas?  Why are we still listening to a group of oligarchs whose failed policies and misguided shortsightedness in 7 years have done more to ruin our country than anything in the preceding  220 years of management?  

I have no answers.  I am just one of the voices in the wilderness.  No one listens, no one cares.

However, I will continue to be a voice in the wilderness, because eventually, when enough of us are lost,  we will be heard.