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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (736782)	4/14/2006 11:48:46 AM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Clancy was a real symbol of bravado and the ability of American technology to overcome former boots on the ground requirements. He was adored by the pentagon crowd always looking for the next piece of technology that would solve otherwise insurmountable problems. Had Iraq worked out the way Rummy and Cheney thought it would (adoring crowds, flowers and Jeffersonian Democracy), I am sure he would have written another book about it, as American technology did carry the day in the initial battle for baghdad. But Clancy has acknowledged that occupation is a lot different that shock and awe, and he has gone on record (sorry, no link) that Iraq is a mess.... Technology only gets you so far. Don't you think Clancy's realization of the complexities of this struggle have any relevance...or could be seen as symptamatic of other like-thinkers?