Junior Science Refresher this is science magazine in india published this is article page no 73 the looting of the civil infrastructure after our invasion including the pilfering of museums was a tip-off as to how undermanned and under planned we really were. myth 3 – if only we stayed the course as the president is fond of saying it will work out in the end. theres a line that goes if you always do what you always did youll always get what you always got. in life if something isnt working you change it. you do something else. you do not just keep doing what you were doing. this president is stubborn without being wise. perhaps more than anyone else in the history of the modern presidency he shows a reluctance to learn from his mistakes and total lack of desire to inquire as to alternative options. hes locked into a thinking that just doesnt work. he has never allowed the decision making process to be vetted by opposing thinkers. in this behavior he is unique and foolish. myth 4 – iraq will become democratic in time. sure and i believe in the tooth fairy. this is not the american revolution a unique era with a unique group of the best read self-educated men in history. unrivaled in courage our founders had the desire to stand against england and form a republic for which it stands. president bush is right when he says i havent seen thomas jefferson in iraq yet. jefferson doesnt exist in iraq and perhaps never will. myth 5 – our situation in iraq has made our position stronger in the world? really do you really want to argue this one? iraq had the 4th or 5th largest standing army in the world. we demonstrated that we could take it apart and destroy it in 29 days. this was a valuable lesson for the world to learn. in the aftermath we demonstrated that we could not govern. we could not influence events. our influence frankly just broke down and we did it in the face of the world while everybody was watching. our enemies and our friends recognize that we do not have the capacity to back up our rhetoric with military action anywhere else in the world while we are bogged down in iraq. placing 140000 troops currently in iraq has made us incapable of operating anywhere else. if north korea were to create a provocative act today what would we do? if iran were to send troops into the iraqi desert or better yet to saudi arabia or kuwait what would we do? we no longer have a draft. the military is having major problems fulfilling their current manpower requirements. has anybody noticed the disproportionate number of officers at the lieutenant level and above that are dying in iraq. last week 3 lieutenant colonels were killed in action junior science refresher magazine.
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