American media, public emasculating our warriors
Blackfive, never one to leave you wanting, adds a new contributer in the form of “Just Another Savage”. J-TAS, an Army NCO posting from Baghdad, takes on the Rules of Engagement, the drive-by media, and oh yeah - YOU.
Some excerpts…
Allow me, if I may, to remark on the lack of morale of the American Soldier in Iraq.Reality: Soldiers in Iraq do not feel they are making a difference. They feel things are out of control. They are scared, and they are angry. They want to come home.
But let me also tell you what they do not feel: Powerless, weak, satisfied.
Do I feel unable to face the violence? No, that is not the case. I am frustrated that I am here, and no one will let me fight.
That is right. If you are an American, and you are reading this, you share fault. Give CNN ratings, fall in line with those that have hounded the steps of the American Soldier criticizing his every fault while looking away from the success of his missions, and heralding at the tops of their lungs the number of dead without ever talking about the value of the lives lost. Long after specials on fallen soldiers and the human toll are just file footage, soldiers such as I will remember the deaths of the ones we cared about, and know the price of that cost. And while they talk about how out of control the violence in Baghdad has become, soldiers grind their teeth wishing they could just do the job they know. Wishing they could take all the weapons from the people in this city, clear every house, stop all traffic, and most of all, secure Sadr city.
For all the hope of America that we will be safe, no one has ever said, “I can’t wait until our soldiers charge in there and kick ass!” When people say that our soldiers aren’t doing anything over here, that we need to come home, they never bring up that we don’t do anything because of all the pressure THEY THEMSELVES HAVE PUT ON US.
You have the finest army in the world, America. Best equipped, highly trained, and already established on the ground in Iraq. If the people at home stopped merely wishing things would get better, and tell us to make them better no matter what, it would. We are ready to fight, are you?
You know, he’s right, and the Iraqi Survey Group report doesn’t help any either. Nowhere in that document are there suggestions for a way to achieve “victory”. In fact, the word “victory” isn’t even used - except to describe how Al Qaeda will consider our withdrawl. Sure, we can follow the suggestions in the report - and let Iran and Syria have their way in the region, place Israel in an almost untenable strategic position, and abandon our allies in Iraq.
Everything about this war is becoming PC. The ghost of Abu Ghraib is regularly resurrected by the liberals, and yet I know for a fact that at my own FOB, we were practically giving our “detainees” hugs and lollipops when they entered the detention facilities - all because the leadership was deathly afraid to have another Abu G-like incident.
I know I left Iraq feeling like I hadn’t accomplished much. In reality, I had - but nearly all of it revolved around improving our own infrastructure, and little was done in the way of improving the overall security of the region and bettering the lives of the Iraqis who lived around us.
Oh well, maybe the next tour of duty…
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