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...assigned itself but has never accomplished. Only we can do this. But without enough manpower and better logistics and equipment to intimidate the insurgency, the resistance forces have erupted and now will be much harder to put down. Despite the still concealed but ever-growing budget for Iraq, more troops are required to quash current violence and deter further insecurity. To pursue our continuing military obligations on the cheap endangers both our soldiers and the chances for avoiding real civil war in Iraq. But the domestic problems larger troop deployments would precipitate, with the military (regular, reserves and national guard...
...Rumsfeld: the aggressive unilateralism that has left the U.S. unable to attract significant allied participation; comments questioning the application of the Geneva Convention in instances where the enemies of the U.S. are deemed terrorists; and, most importantly, a capital-intensive war plan that has left America short of troops to pacify Iraq. Just as the plaudits poured in for the Defense Secretary following the lightning victory for the U.S. forces that captured Baghdad in three weeks, so do the complaints arrive at his door when, a year later, the U.S. is struggling to achieve its war aims. That's because...
Meanwhile, the Iraqi police and security forces to whom the U.S. had hoped to turn over more responsibility were proving barely competent. U.S. officers on the ground in Fallujah, Najaf and other hot spots warned of a level of training and coordination by rebel bands that kept U.S. troops tied down. Plus, there is no slack in U.S. force strength. "Everybody's committed," says an Army officer who has tracked U.S. troop levels in Iraq over the past year. "If civil war erupts between the Kurds and Sunnis, who goes there? There is nobody. How is it possible...
When General John Abizaid inherited the U.S. war in Iraq last year, some officers wanted him to boost the U.S. troop presence there to get a firmer grip on the violence racking the country. "More U.S. troops will lead to less consent for our presence among the Iraqis," Abizaid told them. Only partly in jest, he berated as "colonialists" those who wanted more U.S. troops in Iraq...
...suicide mission. But the battalion falls back from their advance. Enraged, the general orders three men shot for cowardice as examples for his entire army. During the battle and the trial, Kubrick details the fail-safe inefficiencies and inhumanities of the military tactics and political strategies, and troop and individual motivation, which prevent an intelligent officer (played by Kirk Douglas) from taking moral action. Because the dynamics of the military are merely extensions of politics, the film is an indictment of the general social situation it depicts as well. Kubrick's camerawork brilliantly expresses the varying cultural vacuums in which...