TIRED SOLDIERS

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TIRED SOLDIERS

by waves @ 2008-06-12 – 14:29:40

TIRED SOLDIERS

ARVIND K.PANDEY

Ultimately , the imperialist designs of America are beginning to spell doom for its warriors having sleepless nights in various parts of the world to turn wild dreams into a reality . Worse, the emergence of dangerous forces in Iraq is proving nightmarish for the American soldiers who are unable to check the menace of car bombers . It's time for the American defence officials to be in league with " ground realities " before camouflaging its selfish interests as missions for the sake of humanity .Or else , such vain ambitions could annihilate the well-being of American soldiers , trapping them in virtual death-traps forever.
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- technomist
- 2008-06-12 @ 14:49:09
Could you try writing in intelligible English please?

"It's time for the American defence officials to be in league with " ground realities " before camouflaging its selfish interests as missions for the sake of humanity" - this is gibberish. You seem to be tripping up on your own empty rhetoric. Maybe the real cause of the vagueness of your thoughts is that you don't know enough about what you are talking about. Have you ever met the American soldiers who you are discussing, or spoken with the officials concerned?

Waves Comment On June 13, 08 :
Dear Technomist ,

You are not sure what you want to say . We are not living in bullock cart age that we have to trace the sources all the time . Many columnist and news channels are all the time pouring details .Are all of them offering " gibberish " .We are living in age in which even the war is being shown live . Above all it's practically impossible to have the first hand experiences of the actualities all the time . It's not necessary to write 1000 words article to give a certain impression . All short pieces are not empty rheotric but they are essence, particularly in my case, of comments of established intellectuals . You can satiate your desires for facts by going through previous issues of Frontline, Time , and reading articles of Ramachandra Guha( The Telegraph ) , Bill Kirkman ( The Hindu ) and Fareed Zakaria ( Newsweek ) .Sorry gentleman , I am not interested in jugglery of facts .Many others are doing it .I leave it to them to confuse and fool the readers with facts in lengthy articles devoid of substance .

Yours,
Arvind K.Pandey

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Author: technomist reply (on June 13, 2008)in response to above reffered comment .
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Comment:
If you are going to blame other sources, then it is considered intellectually honest to specifically cite them, even in blogland.

Apart from anything else, the people who have done all the hard work are entitled to the acknowledgment of their efforts by people who copy or summarize them.

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The blog owner changed this comment on 2008-06-14 15:57:38
- - waves
  - 2008-06-14 @ 15:35:04
  Dear Technomist ,
  
  Many thanks for your response . Before I give some concrete evidences in support of my article , I wish to make it clear to you and everyone that people writing short pieces are not the ones who are not aware of facts or for that matter cannot write lentgthy pieces . Everyone has a particular style and no external agency can impose his will upon him -to write in certain pattern . Normally , I don't entertain such demand for solid evidences as I am the chap not interested in presenting details .To enter in jungle of facts has never been my habit . I leave it to the likes Of Arundhati Roy to create long pieces full of facts and coplex sentence constructions .
  However , just to let you know that my short pieces are result of some serious study , I am presenting you some facts . One thing more I have acknowledged the role of people who done hard work if and when found necessary .
  
  Facts in support of original piece :
  
  1. " The conduct of war in Iraq has made it clear that there was no effective plan for the post -Saddam settlement .All those with experience of the area predicted that the occupation of Iraq by the coailition forces would meet serious and stuuborn resistance , as has proved to be the case ."
  
  ( Excerpts from a letter written to former PM Tony Blair by more than 50 former British ambassadors in last week of April 2004 )
  
  2. Some sense of this deepning disquiet even among the U.S. soldiery comes through , in an editorial that appeared in an in-house journal Army Times , on May 17,2004 . It says , in part : A failure of leadership at the higest levels while responsibity begins with the six soldiers facing criminal charges , it extends all the way up the chain of command to the higest reaches of the military hierachy and its civilian leadership .The entire affair is failure of leadership from start to finish . "
  
  3. In a significant story published on May 9 this year (read 2004) , The Washington Post offered a grim picture and quoted high -ranking military official who went farther than their chief : " Deep divisions are emerging at the top of U.S. military over the course of the occupation of Iraq , with some senior officers beginning to say that the United States faces the prospect of casualities for years without achieving its goal of estabilishing a free and democratic Iraq...."
  
  3. Many of those who had come to supervise what they thought was going to be Iraq's smooth transition to a free market economy and a safe heaven for foreign capital have relocated their offices to Amman . Disaffection within the U.S. armed forces seems to be escalating .Soldiers who had come under the impression that they were to be greeted with garlands by those whome they were going to " liberate " find themselves constantly under attack , and the tour of duty that was supposed to last merely few weeks now seems endless , after full 15 months of occupation .Among those who have returned to the U.S. , more and more are beginning to speak about what they saw and did , as indicated by the editorial in Army Times .
  
  4.The U.S. launched its war on Iraq with the confidence that apoor third world country now had no choice but to submit to its dictates , and the occupation of Iraq was to serve as example to every Third World country as a demonstratoin of what be done to if it dared to defy .......Indeed , people's war against imperialism shall be the moter force of the history of the 21st century until such time as the anti-imperialist revolution gets transformed into revolutions against capitalism itself and the transition to socialism is rsumed on the global scale .
  
  (All the four pieces are part of an article " Empire's Nightmare " by Aijaz Ahmad in Frontline dated June 18, 2004 )
  
  5. A second factor that contributed to post-war chaos in Iraq was a lack of sufficient cops : " Defence Secertary Donald Rumsfeld , who wanted to go into Iraq with lightforces and get out quickly , " Fukuyama says , " has a result of this strategy bogged the U.S. military down in a long-term guerrilla war . "
  
  (Michiko Kakutani in New York Times Service review of Francis Fukuyama's book " America At The Crossroads Emocracy , Power and the Neconservative Legacy . )
  
  6. "It was a loss not just four families .It was a turning point in an already foundering war "
  
  ( From Time's story ' Outsourcing the war '
  related with death of employees associated with Blackwater ---Edition :March 26, 2007 )
  
  7. Lastly , you can also refer to Time's cover story " BROKEN DOWN " ( April 23, 2007)
  
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  I hope it extiguishes you belief that all short pieces are " empty rheotric " and " gibberish " .
  
  Yours,
  Arvind K.Pandey
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- - waves
  - 2008-06-16 @ 15:49:04
  Dear Technomist ,
  
  Many thanks for your response . Before I give some concrete evidences in support of my article , I wish to make it clear to you and everyone that people writing short pieces are not the ones who are not aware of facts or for that matter cannot write lentgthy pieces . Everyone has a particular style and no external agency can impose his will upon him -to write in certain pattern . Normally , I don't entertain such demand for solid evidences as I am the chap not interested in presenting details .To enter in jungle of facts has never been my habit . I leave it to the likes Of Arundhati Roy to create long pieces full of facts and coplex sentence constructions .
  However , just to let you know that my short pieces are result of some serious study , I am presenting you some facts . One thing more I have acknowledged the role of people who done hard work if and when found necessary .
  
  Facts in support of original piece :
  
  1. " The conduct of war in Iraq has made it clear that there was no effective plan for the post -Saddam settlement .All those with experience of the area predicted that the occupation of Iraq by the coailition forces would meet serious and stuuborn resistance , as has proved to be the case ."
  
  ( Excerpts from a letter written to former PM Tony Blair by more than 50 former British ambassadors in last week of April 2004 )
  
  2. Some sense of this deepning disquiet even among the U.S. soldiery comes through , in an editorial that appeared in an in-house journal Army Times , on May 17,2004 . It says , in part : A failure of leadership at the higest levels while responsibity begins with the six soldiers facing criminal charges , it extends all the way up the chain of command to the higest reaches of the military hierachy and its civilian leadership .The entire affair is failure of leadership from start to finish . "
  
  3. In a significant story published on May 9 this year (read 2004) , The Washington Post offered a grim picture and quoted high -ranking military official who went farther than their chief : " Deep divisions are emerging at the top of U.S. military over the course of the occupation of Iraq , with some senior officers beginning to say that the United States faces the prospect of casualities for years without achieving its goal of estabilishing a free and democratic Iraq...."
  
  3. Many of those who had come to supervise what they thought was going to be Iraq's smooth transition to a free market economy and a safe heaven for foreign capital have relocated their offices to Amman . Disaffection within the U.S. armed forces seems to be escalating .Soldiers who had come under the impression that they were to be greeted with garlands by those whome they were going to " liberate " find themselves constantly under attack , and the tour of duty that was supposed to last merely few weeks now seems endless , after full 15 months of occupation .Among those who have returned to the U.S. , more and more are beginning to speak about what they saw and did , as indicated by the editorial in Army Times .
  
  4.The U.S. launched its war on Iraq with the confidence that apoor third world country now had no choice but to submit to its dictates , and the occupation of Iraq was to serve as example to every Third World country as a demonstratoin of what be done to if it dared to defy .......Indeed , people's war against imperialism shall be the moter force of the history of the 21st century until such time as the anti-imperialist revolution gets transformed into revolutions against capitalism itself and the transition to socialism is rsumed on the global scale .
  
  (All the four pieces are part of an article " Empire's Nightmare " by Aijaz Ahmad in Frontline dated June 18, 2004 )
  
  5. A second factor that contributed to post-war chaos in Iraq was a lack of sufficient cops : " Defence Secertary Donald Rumsfeld , who wanted to go into Iraq with lightforces and get out quickly , " Fukuyama says , " has a result of this strategy bogged the U.S. military down in a long-term guerrilla war . "
  
  (Michiko Kakutani in New York Times Service review of Francis Fukuyama's book " America At The Crossroads Emocracy , Power and the Neconservative Legacy . )
  
  6. "It was a loss not just four families .It was a turning point in an already foundering war "
  
  ( From Time's story ' Outsourcing the war '
  related with death of employees associated with Blackwater ---Edition :March 26, 2007 )
  
  7. Lastly , you can also refer to Time's cover story " BROKEN DOWN " ( April 23, 2007)
  
  ****
  
  I hope it extiguishes you belief that all short pieces are " empty rheotric " and " gibberish " .
  
  Yours,
  Arvind K.Pandey
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