Significant risk
Feb 27th, 2007 at 12:06 pm by Dr. S
Would bombing Iran qualify as “yet another crisis“?
Strained by the demands of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, there is a significant risk that the U.S. military won’t be able to quickly and fully respond to yet another crisis, according to a new report to Congress.
The assessment, done by the nation’s top military officer, Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, represents a worsening from a year ago, when that risk was rated as moderate.
The report is classified, but on Monday senior defense officials, speaking on condition on anonymity, confirmed the decline in overall military readiness. And a report that accompanied Pace’s review concluded that while the Pentagon is working to improve its warfighting abilities, it “may take several years to reduce risk to acceptable levels.”
That “surge” idea sounds better and better every day.
UPDATE: Tony Snow explains that when General Peter Pace’s assessment says “there is a significant risk that the U.S. military won’t be able to quickly and fully respond to yet another crisis,” it means “what you have seen, actually, is a nimbleness when it comes to trying to do force protection, I think, probably unprecedented in a time of warfare.”
Report: U.S. Military Readiness Worsens…
Strained by the demands of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, there is a significant risk that the U.S. m…
Wasn’t our stunning success in Iraq to serve as a shining light of democracy for the rest of the middle east? Yea that is working out swimmingly well isn’t it?
Why does Pace still have a job? He keeps calling bullshit, and he still has a job. I don’t get it. Maybe HE has the pictures of somebody in bed with a dead boy.