Thursday, April 19, 2012

Finally....

Finally someone in the media says what I've been thinking about the uproar over the pictures of U.S. troops with Taliban bodies in Afghanistan. No surprise, it's Lt. Col. Ralph Peters talking on Fox News.

Peters is the military analyst/writer whose insights make the most sense to me; his work often appears in the New York Post. See what he says about all the abject apologies made by the military brass, SecDef, and the White House:
Our soldiers out on the front line, and our Marines, are under tremendous stresses. War is not a ladies auxiliary tea party, and it's all too easy for people comfortable in Los Angeles or New York or the White House to condemn the troops without context.
Don't blame the troops out doing the tough work. Blame the generals whose strategy has failed, the cowardly, cowardly White House just trying to kick the can down the road to November, and blame the establishment media that really loves, loves to trash our soldiers and Marines.
Amen, Col. Peters; I couldn't agree more.