> Seek-ji, I am curious. Tell us the reasons Why the US is not keen on
> winning.
I'll give the answer in terms of the following categories: 1. Military
Officers, 2. Military enlisted, 3. Spec Ops vs. regular infantry, 4. basic
American mindset, 5. Basic politics
1. Officers - the guys in charge. There are some strong Liutenants and
Captains i've met over the years, but for the most part Officers only care
about their careers. When an Officer goes to combat, deep inside he doesn't
think this is an opportunity to win a war, he thinks it's an opportunity to
boost his career. It doesn't matter if the Officer conducts any successful
operations, it only matters if nobody in his unit gets hurt. So the Officers
are likely to go into country, do very little, and as long as no one gets hurt,
he's almost guaranteed to get promoted to the next rank. As I continue here,
you will see that our whole military is based around promotions, careers,
narcissism, and living off of the reputation we earned during WWII. If you
read the biography of Robert Baer, you'll see how the CIA completely lost its
spy capability due to careerism. A bunch of people were hired during the 90's
as field agents due to political correctness (mostly people of different races
& genders), rather than an ability to function as an agent. This type of
careerism has been in the Armed Forces as well, and many incompetent people are
in charge.
2. Enlisted - the guys who actually do the work. Most are concerned about
their personal comfort and entertainment, with little concern about their jobs.
Most soldiers/Marines cannot handle being in country for 6-12 months with
minimal entertainment and lower quality food (even though our enemies whose
ability and intelligence we constantly insult can handle it just fine). Most
enlisted have a serious lack of endurance for operations. What's worse is
that enlisted are similar to Officers, except instead of being concerned about
their careers, they're concerned about outperforming each other at isolated
tasks that play a very small role in the overall winning of the war. In fact,
it's very rare you can get enlisted to put forth much effort at all unless you
can somehow find a way to use their performance to boost their narcissistic
view of themselves. This is the only reason Marines tend to do a little better
of a job at certain things than other branches. Not because they care much
about their jobs, but because their leaders skillfully manipulate their egos
about who and what they are. That gives them an initial boost of energy to do
their jobs, but they have no follow through. This is why Marines don't meld
too well within special operations units, they are only motivated for a short
period of time.
Also, most enlisted joined around the age of 18. They never had a job
before, and military is socialism in its purest form. No matter how good or
how bad of a job you do, you will get paid, and you will eventually get
promoted. So there is no incentive for good performance whatsoever. This is
why I don't agree with socialism, because I see it in action every day and it
breeds laziness and incompetence. If anyone tells you that the military is
full of highly efficient and hardworking people, tell them to discuss this with
me, and I'll break down their illusion with more details.
3. Spec Ops vs. regular infantry. The 2 wars that we started are in
environments where guerrilla warfare is much more dominant, even more so than
Vietnam. The only unit out there that has a real monopoly on dealing with that
is the Green Berets. The problem is that the Green Berets only have about 20k
- 30k people. SEALS and Marsoc (Marine Spec Ops/Force Recon) have about 10%
that amount. So essentially, we've got less than 40,000(maybe a little more)
American Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines capable of really going to the source
of the problem and providing the solution. If you remember from the debates
between George Bush and John Kerry during their campaigns, Kerry said he would
double the size of Special Forces, which is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
You can't double it, because there aren't enough Americans that want to be in
that type of neither unit, nor are there that many that would make it even if
they tried.
Another problem here is that many higher commanders and hate Special
Operations. In terms of something you would understand, it's like Christians
who hate all of the eastern philosophical teachings that have infiltrated our
country. Spec Ops units play by a different set of rules, they don't get along
with the rest of the military, and therefore many people in the rest of the
military don't want to see them succeed in combat. This is especially true
with the Marine Corps. When Donald Rumsfeld gave the order for the Marines to
create Marsoc, the Generals were pissed. Even though it was a necessity, it
makes all the regular Marines feel inferior.
Basically, the whole US Military is a big prick waving organization,
and everybody wants to have the biggest dick. Everyone is trying to outshine
everyone, on an individual level, Unit level, and Armed Forces Branch level.
4. Basic American Mindset - the kids joining today have serious attitude
problems. Little league football coaches are allowed to be harder on 8-10 year
old boys than a Drill Sergeant in the Army can be on recruits because parents
have written their congressmen who have in turn put severe restrictions on what
we can and can't do in order to prepare for war. Therefore, attitude problems
are never fixed. Young kid's egos are going unchecked, and anyone involved
with spiritual teachings knows that the ego is the biggest impediment to
learning, regardless of what you're learning - material or spiritual. Most
kids who join have come from very comfortable homes, and boot camp is not
enough of a transition to the reality of war. These kids are developing no
survival instincts, with the exception of a few who came from more difficult
upbringings and those who volunteer for more advanced training. If you took
our technology away from us, and had us go to harsh environments with the exact
same technology as our enemies, we would be annihilated in an instant. The
Taliban do not have restrictions or protocol to follow when they prepare for
war. That's why they're winning for now. Conventional experts will argue we
are winning, but most who understand counter-insurgency know that we're not
winning at all. Americans, in general, are not cut out for war.
5. Basic politics - we can no longer afford a war, but at the same time we
can't ignore that there are terrorists out there, because they are trying to
infiltrate Europe and America. Iraq, IMO, was a distraction. Afghanistan
makes sense, because it is such an unruly country that is a great breeding
ground for various terrorist organizations. But our economy is going to shit.
The money to fund this war is running dry. We may collapse like the Soviet
Union did in the 90's. Our enemy, who we insult and laugh at as being dumb,
knows that our economy is our real strength. But politicians can't 'do
nothing' regarding a certain situation, but at the same time there is nothing
they can do either. Everyone in power thinks defeating the Taliban is a matter
of what policy to implement. They just don't friggin get it. It's a war, us
vs. them, and they are willing to dedicate their whole lives to defeating us,
while we have a time limit set. We won WWI and WWII because we were fighting
people who did not want to lose everything defeating us. Islamic extremists do
not have this fear of losing everything, and we are doing nothing as a culture
to overcome this fear ourselves. And therefore, it's my theory that we will
lose.
So overall, politicians are ignoring realities of war as well, and are putting
time limits on us rather than basing decisions off of actual accomplishments.
They don't make decisions based on what wins, but what gets them
elected/re-elected.
seekliberation
