Comments on: The ISG Report: Be afraid, be very afraid http://blog.psaonline.org/2006/12/15/the-isg-report-be-afraid-be-very-afraid/ Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:29:47 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Arab Group http://blog.psaonline.org/2006/12/15/the-isg-report-be-afraid-be-very-afraid/comment-page-1/#comment-78743 Arab Group Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:38:05 +0000 http://blog.psaonline.org/2006/12/15/the-isg-report-be-afraid-be-very-afraid/#comment-78743 <strong>Arab Group...</strong> I Googled for something completely different, but found your page...and have to say thanks. nice read.... Arab Group…

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]]> By: Across the Aisle » More Thoughts on the ISG Report http://blog.psaonline.org/2006/12/15/the-isg-report-be-afraid-be-very-afraid/comment-page-1/#comment-14671 Across the Aisle » More Thoughts on the ISG Report Thu, 21 Dec 2006 18:42:06 +0000 http://blog.psaonline.org/2006/12/15/the-isg-report-be-afraid-be-very-afraid/#comment-14671 [...] Ben Rhodes and David Isenberg have matched wits on the ISG Report (here, here, and here), and Brian Vogt has offered some great observations as well. This debate might seem tiresome, but there are over 140,000 American servicemen and women in Iraq, plus tens of thousands more serving in other capacities (including foreign service officers and contractors). We are spending $8 billion per month, and the costs in lives lost and disrupted cannot be measured. Iraq is the defining foreign policy challenge of our time. It hangs over every other policy that we might wish to see enacted or changed. We cannot escape this debate. It cries out for bipartisanship, the very principle on which PSA is founded, and it seems appropriate that we would engage the debate right here, even at the risk of overdoing it a bit. [...] [...] Ben Rhodes and David Isenberg have matched wits on the ISG Report (here, here, and here), and Brian Vogt has offered some great observations as well. This debate might seem tiresome, but there are over 140,000 American servicemen and women in Iraq, plus tens of thousands more serving in other capacities (including foreign service officers and contractors). We are spending $8 billion per month, and the costs in lives lost and disrupted cannot be measured. Iraq is the defining foreign policy challenge of our time. It hangs over every other policy that we might wish to see enacted or changed. We cannot escape this debate. It cries out for bipartisanship, the very principle on which PSA is founded, and it seems appropriate that we would engage the debate right here, even at the risk of overdoing it a bit. [...]

]]> By: J. William Mason http://blog.psaonline.org/2006/12/15/the-isg-report-be-afraid-be-very-afraid/comment-page-1/#comment-11842 J. William Mason Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:43:29 +0000 http://blog.psaonline.org/2006/12/15/the-isg-report-be-afraid-be-very-afraid/#comment-11842 David Isenberg has hit the nail on the head and I'm sure this is just the tip of the iceberg. David and other scholars could write volumes on the waste, fraud, abuse, mismanagement, and utter stupidity of this whole debacle in Iraq. It would be very interesting to look at a before and after snapshot of the enormous amount of money and riches bestowed on contractors and the military-industrial-congressional complex (some of whom no doubt were interviewed by or even sat on the Iraq Study Group panel) compared to the great sacrifices of the working and middle classes in America because of this "war" (counterinsurgency). In truth, very few of the privileged class has had sons, daughters, husbands and wives at risk in the last three and a half years. And, too bad, that so many have bought into the ridiculous notion that America is fighting for "freedom" in Iraq and/or making significant inroads on "winning the Global War on Terrorism." Time magazine recently announced it's Person of the Year award to Americans as a whole. But, we as a People don't deserve such awards as have failed to stand up for American values and common sense. And, because of the Bush Administration's commitment to unilaterialism, preemption, a refocus on building new generations of nuclear weapons, overemphasis on military solutions to political problems, the embrace of torture as a stated policy of dealing with terrorists, and other unreasonable policies, in the eyes of the most of the world, our nation has lost its way. David Isenberg has hit the nail on the head and I’m sure this is just the tip of the iceberg. David and other scholars could write volumes on the waste, fraud, abuse, mismanagement, and utter stupidity of this whole debacle in Iraq. It would be very interesting to look at a before and after snapshot of the enormous amount of money and riches bestowed on contractors and the military-industrial-congressional complex (some of whom no doubt were interviewed by or even sat on the Iraq Study Group panel) compared to the great sacrifices of the working and middle classes in America because of this “war” (counterinsurgency). In truth, very few of the privileged class has had sons, daughters, husbands and wives at risk in the last three and a half years. And, too bad, that so many have bought into the ridiculous notion that America is fighting for “freedom” in Iraq and/or making significant inroads on “winning the Global War on Terrorism.” Time magazine recently announced it’s Person of the Year award to Americans as a whole. But, we as a People don’t deserve such awards as have failed to stand up for American values and common sense. And, because of the Bush Administration’s commitment to unilaterialism, preemption, a refocus on building new generations of nuclear weapons, overemphasis on military solutions to political problems, the embrace of torture as a stated policy of dealing with terrorists, and other unreasonable policies, in the eyes of the most of the world, our nation has lost its way.

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