Please Tell Me It’s Only A Bad Dream
Jun 22nd, 2006 at 4:25 pm by Susie
“I think the Taliban realize they have a window to act. “The enemy is working against a window that he knows is closing.”
Maj. Gen. Benjamin Freakley
Commander, U.S. forces in Afghanistan
Press Conference
June 17, 2006
“We have reached an important point when the end begins to come into view. The enemy’s hopes are bankrupt.”
Lt. Gen. William Westmoreland
Commander, U.S. forces in Vietnam
Press Conference
November 21, 1967
Go read for even more on how we’re losing two wars at the same time.
The name “Major General Freakley” has a certain comic ring to it, does it not?
Yeah, like the insurgents are all going to go home in the next few months…oh yeah, it’s our troops who can actually leave and go home (if we let them).
Remember how long that little war in Ireland lasted?
Wasn’t there another fascist whose undoing was having a war on two fronts?