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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: michael97123 who wrote (154510)12/21/2004 11:57:43 AM
From: cnyndwllr  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Mike, literally everybody has compassion for the troops. Even the most calculating, self-serving, willing-to-send-his-troops-to death-in-order-to-get-a-promotion officer has "compassion for the troops."

The better question is whether Bush and Rumsfeld have the degree of compassion for the troops that would compel them to treat those soldiers exactly the way they'd treat themselves if they were the ones taking the bullets and metal fragments from rpgs and ieds? How do you think they fare using that test?

If they were personally on the line would they still think the army was doing everything it could to armor the troops and their transports or would they have placed the orders a long time before-the hell with politics of budgets? Would they still think the war was worth fighting if it was them, their kids and their friends who were paralyzed, limbless, brain injured, PTSed and dying there? Would they be saying "we volunteered and therefor it's part of our job to go to war with the "army we have?" Would they still consider the casualties "light?" Would Rumsfeld still "comfort" the soldiers by reminding them that they couldn't blame all of their deaths on a correctable lack of armor since "even a tank can be blown up?

By my standard these are not "compassionate men." Maybe a month on the lines would be good for them but, to be honest, I can't see Bush being able to take the pressures. Rumsfeld could, and it would make him a better man. Ed
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