We're allies and we are friends. As long as we stand together, power will always be on the side of peace and freedom. Setting the tone for his foreign policy, the double-talking leitmotif of this administration is becoming firmly established. One of my favorite Internet columnists, Colonel David Hackworth , throws some light on this. Besides failing to compute the long-term effects of actions, American military leaders seldom have learned from the past.
History shows they've repeatedly made the same mistakes.
Despite all the Lessons Learned pamphlets, the studies and the history books, the record shows there's little institutional memory in the US armed forces. We have special officers who handle administration, intelligence, operations, logistics, and civil affairs. His general hostility to the world-saving, romantic gestures so beloved by civilians points to an amusingly ironic development.