Category: Iraq: The Present Crisis
Friday, April 22, 2005
From The Cunning Realist: What We've Really Lost.
It takes a lot to make me fall off my chair in amazement these days, but this just about did it. And a quick glance at several other pro-war sites -- from the usually rational to the confirmed lunatic fringe -- shows similar "outrage" at this barbarism and lack of respect for the Geneva Convention.
I'd like to be the first to congratulate the outrage camp. They've stumbled -- unwittingly I am sure -- onto why Iraq is a perfect example of how a battle can be won but a war can be lost.
One of John Boyd's key insights was that war (and victory in war) has a moral dimension every bit as important as the physical and the mental ones. This is a prime example of what happens when you fail to contest the enemy in that dimension.
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