The U.S. people have plenty of guts where something important to us is at stake. Let Japan bomb Hawaii again and I bet you my bottom dollar that there will be NO holding back becasue some body bags come home. We accepted casualties in Desert Storm because we believed we needed to be there.
What we lack is the willingness to see American youth slaughtered in fights that don't concern us and that we shouldn't be in. What the Hell do we care about Serbia that makes it worth American men and women dying there? Nothing.
Another big difference is leadership. We know Billy is a great politician, but as a military leader, screw him. George Bush was a decorated veteran and knew the price of war. And Powell and Schwartzkopf were professionals who knew what they were doing, set a strategy, and carried it out.
Clinton is a draft dodger who never served a day in uniform. General Clark's stars apparently came out of a Crackerjack box. He has no idea what he's doing, what his purpose is, or how to execute his mission and get the hell out. We have no great strategy as we had in Desert Storm. We have no careful massing of power, deliberate and well thought out strategy.
Don't underestimate our guts. We have plenty of guts when we need to, when it matters, and when we have leaders who deserve to have blood shed for them. But we are too smart to be willing to shed a drop of American blood for Serbia or Kosovo.
And that's the way I see it. |
