Iraq: USA gets ready to dig those "victory gardens"
reuters: The top U.S. military officer faulted U.S. political leaders on Friday for failing to get across what he portrayed as the huge stakes in Iraq and elsewhere in the U.S.-declared global war on terrorism.
"The most important thing we have... right now in this kind of conflict is our will and our resolve," Gen. Richard Myers, outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at the Pentagon, adding the U.S. public does not get the stakes.
"I think it's incumbent on the national leadership, writ large, to help communicate this to the American public," said Myers, reporting on a 10-day, 18-base tour that included Iraq, Afghanistan and bases in Asia and Europe.
"The soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen engaged in this fight are the reason we are winning. Their successes are the untold story of the global war on terrorism, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom," he said.
He contrasted the national mood with World War II, when Americans planted "victory gardens" of vegetables and took part in scrap metal and paper collection drives to boost the military effort.
"And that of course is not the case today. And so I think it's easy for people that don't have individuals indirectly or directly involved in this to forget for a minute that we are a nation at [db edit:ILLEGAL] war," he said. Read more
db: Now I see - the problem is a lack of communication. Which is very often the last thing that is said before a failed policy goes down the toilet.
"The most important thing we have... right now in this kind of conflict is our will and our resolve," Gen. Richard Myers, outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at the Pentagon, adding the U.S. public does not get the stakes.
"I think it's incumbent on the national leadership, writ large, to help communicate this to the American public," said Myers, reporting on a 10-day, 18-base tour that included Iraq, Afghanistan and bases in Asia and Europe.
"The soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen engaged in this fight are the reason we are winning. Their successes are the untold story of the global war on terrorism, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom," he said.
He contrasted the national mood with World War II, when Americans planted "victory gardens" of vegetables and took part in scrap metal and paper collection drives to boost the military effort.
"And that of course is not the case today. And so I think it's easy for people that don't have individuals indirectly or directly involved in this to forget for a minute that we are a nation at [db edit:ILLEGAL] war," he said. Read more
db: Now I see - the problem is a lack of communication. Which is very often the last thing that is said before a failed policy goes down the toilet.
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