In news:e8a4ue$7ld$1@lust.ihug.co.nz,
Your Name Here=Harvey <you@somehost.somedomain.aus> typed:

With the matter of arguing the case, it is interesting to note
Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski as to what goes on within the Pentagon,
when
she comments personally about the leadership present there.
How with the Neocons, who are behind G W Bush's policy decisions -
that
although they are regarded as being highly intelligent people - these
people never served in the military or seen service (G W Bush is not
counted because he was never in active service in a wartime
environment) and
are not team players, have not functioned within a team environment.
She makes the point that anyone who has played 'team' sports or served
in the military, in active service --- that it is OK to express
yourself
honestly when you have messed up. When you make bad decisions and
have to
clean up afterwards - because you don't want to keep on making the
same
mistakes all the time.
Whereas the Neocons are in complete denial of any policy decisions
they
have made. Like the Iraq mess the US is currently embroiled in.
The military ends up having to clean up the messy situation in Iraq,
which
was never workable to begin with.
Bush goes in with guns blazing - only that he never was there in the
first place, it is the US troops who have to face the disaster that is
Iraq.
Of course the US government puts up a front, of doing no wrong, and
never
ever admitting to anything done wrong - of course government
departments
are not competing against each other, or messing each other up...

Only that we see nothing quite right, as in 9-11.

Well assuming Al Queda were responsible for 9/11, terrorists is they usually
have an agenda, so responding to acts of terrorism in a predictably vengeful
way could be seen as playing into the hands of the terrorist's agenda
falling into the trap they set and complying with their demands. The
terrorists have succeeded. They are turning the US into a less free society,
they have undermined confidence in Bush. They have divided and weakened the
US and other Western democracies. If their agenda is to impose Islamo
Fascism on the entire World so far they appear to be succeeding in
undermining Western democracies and their agenda is well on course. That
said I don't think they are ever likely to win.
-- 
Amanda