Another General who hates American and wants to see America loose

A veteran general hears echoes from Vietnam in Iraq

By Nancy A. Youssef, McClatchy Newspapers Mon Aug 6, 10:08 AM ET

WASHINGTON — Volney Warner thinks big. A retired Army four-star general who helped craft counterinsurgency doctrine during the Vietnam War, he's made a career out of thinking about how U.S. military strategy should advance America's global interests.

How does domestic politics shape military tactics? How and why did U.S. civilian and military leaders fail in Vietnam and Iraq ? What has Iraq taught the U.S. military about unconventional war?

Warner is more than a detached student of America's current conflicts: Seven of his immediate family members have served in the military, five of them in Iraq or Afghanistan . They include his two sons, one a retired brigadier general and the other a retired colonel; a son-in-law who trained local troops in Iraq as a brigadier general; a granddaughter who's a captain in the Army Reserve ; a grandson serving in Iraq and another grandson at West Point who'll be commissioned as an officer in June and probably ordered to a war zone immediately.

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Iraq and Vietnam , he said, are both products of failed civilian and military leadership. Presidents John F. Kennedy and George W. Bush began with flawed aims and assumptions, and in both cases they produced military strategies that were doomed to fail.

"If the strategy is wrong and the policy is wrong, you can't blame the people implementing it. They are trying to implement a political strategy that won't work. It's very difficult to turn the train around," said Warner, who at 81 heads a defense consulting firm in McLean, Va . "I have to believe that military leaders in positions of trust and confidence may have made stupid decisions (in the course of fighting an insurgency), but never with malice aforethought towards the country that spawned them and certainly not with intent to destroy the lives of those soldiers who believed in them, trusted their decisions and carried out their orders to their deaths."

The flawed assumptions of Vietnam and Iraq are nearly mirror images of one another.

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What he says echoes what those dirty, pinko-commie hippies have been saying since this war began! That it looks like, smells like, walks like and talks like Viet Nam ... that the strategy won't work ... and that there's no military substitute for the required political solution. Traitorous clap-trap!

Besides, how can he possibly know what he's talking about compared the wealth of military experience our great leadership has accumulated at the top? Just compare the military records of a G.W.Bush or Dick Cheney or Carl Rove or Donald Rumsfeld! They've seen it all!