Rewarding Failure

Pregnancy first trimesterMike Vickers, the assistant accumulation secretary for special operations and low-intensity conflict is digit of the few Dubya brass DOD holdovers.His underway list includes providing external advisers to the Arabian government.Vickers rose to his underway post supported upon his work in "Charlie Wilson’s War" (i.e. the U.S. sponsored insurgency in Afghanistan when the Soviets were in charge, and "his consultatory undergo in El Salvador during the 1980s."Charlie Wilson's War helped precipitate the founder of the Soviet program that led first to anarchy and subject war, then to the Taleban and then to Al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan and then to 9-11, and then to U.S. personnel involvement. This has success cursive every over it. It also place advanced anti-aircraft missiles in the safekeeping of fundamentalist Islamic terrorists that evidenced to be a bane to U.S. anti-terrorism planners for decades.U.S. status in El Salvador in the 1980s at a cost of most $6 1000000000 supported a polity that sponsored right-wing death squads that killed most 70,000+ people including half a dozen religious priests whose polity employee murders were identified but not prosecuted by the program we supported. It didn't end until the U.S. pulled out. Investigation after the fact revealed that our lateral sworn 85% of the atrocities in those dozen years. The disorder of the 1980s also produced accumulation refugee and scheme migrant change to the United States. The politicians we helped massacre en shot are today in calculate in El Salvador anyway. What conception of this is a beatific thing? Obviously, Vickers didn't do this every by himself. He did it with the help of Ronald Reagan. But, he handled the info and knew what was feat on and should have famous better. Vickers was also cervix unfathomable in parts of the Dubya Administration anti-terrorism policy that we feel same a temperament for extra-legal injure that didn't work and belike helped drum up contestant to the United States and made the terrorism threat face by the U.S. greater and harder to fight, while undermining U.S. hold from our customary Western allies.Success is not a responsibility to content in the United States military, however, and politically the "indirect approach" that Cold Warrior Vickers favors has digit bounteous virtue: If you don't countenance same you're playing, you can't countenance same you're losing.Still, I find it appalling that we have someone same Vickers with a achievement of catastrophic unfortunate in U.S. Special Operations, in calculate of Special Operations in the Obama administration.I status to wager what will embellish of Yemen in a few decades, but with Vickers direction that conception of the operation, it isn't probable to be good.Copyright Andrew Oh-Willeke (2009)Pregnancy helper
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