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USA is not a single entity with a single voice. Historically, generals of strong empires tend to go fight rebellions or weaker enemy states for prolonged time
by analyst74 11y ago
USA is not a single entity with a single voice.
Historically, generals of strong empires tend to go fight rebellions or weaker enemy states for prolonged time even if they could destroy them quickly. They do that to maintain power, or the empire will have no more enemies and the military's influence drops.
I'm not saying that's what happened in this case, but that is one of many reasons American entities (military, politicians, whatever) act against some other Americans' interests.
- 13thLetter 11y agoDoesn't the old saw about "never ascribe to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity" comes to mind instead? American political leadership is desperately incompetent and is obsessed with avoiding bad publicity at all costs. That more than adequately explains our comically ineffectual war strategy.
- antod 11y agoIt seems that way to me. The current administration desperately hope to be able to do nothing and have it resolve itself or do just the bare minimum response to each crisis, but usually underestimate just what that bare minimum response is and have to ramp it up a bit due to political pressure or saving face. Of course, that attitude is pretty much due to the previous administration being too naively adventurous and stupidly causing big messes that are still causing problems. And the previous administrations attitude is due to them thinking the problems were caused by the previous previous administration being too weak in their military responses. etc etc ad infinitum...
- rorykoehler 11y agoThankfully we have wikileaks to clear that up for us so we don't have to "ascribe" anything.