Top Brit general: We must leave Iraq
Thursday October 12, 2006
This is huge, not only in terms of military strategy, but because of the challenge it represents to the British government's authority. The head of the British Army is in open rebellion against the government's Iraq policy. Gen. Sir Richard...
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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Maybe it's just because I only know about Christianity from reading the Bible, but it really escapes me what on Earth the example and sayings of Jesus have to teach us about how to run an army.
Thank goodness we have a tradition in the US of deference of the military to civilian authority. I don't think we'll see Tommy Franks bemoaning partial birth abortion or whatever anytime soon.>
And there's this astonishing warning about British society
Uh, nothing astonishing there.
This guy must be living under a rock and just poked his head out. Christianity is pretty much over in Britian, and London is the capital of Eurabia.>
"London is the capital of Eurabia"
A preposterous statement.>
Indeed: the capital is Paris.>
The General seems nostalgic for a time when Britain had a moral force capable of combating Islamic intimidation. By saying that the Judeo-Christian tradition underpins the Btitish Army, perhaps he is saying that it provides the restraint necessary to prevent things from breaking down into savage anarchy. Certainly he is witnessing savage anarchy everyday in Iraq among the warring factions. Perhaps our J-C orientation causes us to under estimate the savage potential in military involvements in faraway places. This underestimation causes us to get in over our heads.>
Indeed: the capital is Paris.
I stand corrected.>
The guy has to be fired, period, a la MacArthur. Generals don't get to advocate policy, if you want democracy to survive. Ex-generals, yes. On-duty generals, no.>
Hasn't he already caved in?>
I was right: by the time I posted that, he was saying there was no difference in his and Blair's positions.>
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