Triumph of the Will (redux)

This article from CNN was a teensy bit of an eye-opener for me. According to Watergate journalist turned Bush White House shill Bob Woodward, Bush and Cheney are getting advice on Iraq from none other than the slack-jawed, rheumy-eyed Cold Warrior, "Dr." Henry Kissinger.

Yes, you heard me.

He's one of the nattering nabobs urging the "stay the course" non-policy because he's convinced that we lost Vietnam because of a lack of will. So this war is his way of vindicating himself and rehabilitating his currently shoddy place in the annals of history.

Well, in my opinion, Kissinger's barking up the wrong tree.

In Vietnam we might have lost our will to carry on, but we certainly didn't lack the means. After all, we dropped more bombs on North Vietnam than were dropped on all of Europe in the Second World war, and we still didn't destroy the will of the North Vietnamese. In Iraq, the situation is reversed - we have the will, but lack the means. The Army and Marines are rapidly depleting their resources, broken vehicles and equipment are stacking up at repair and refurbishment facilities, and without a draft (oops! I said the dreaded D-word) we are lacking the manpower we need for the Rumsfeldesque "long war" that is the fevered wet dream of the Bombs and Jesus crowd.