Saturday, March 22, 2003

Musings on the War

You know the military is invincible when:

* It can actually give a deadline that's accurate to the hour to the enemy before it starts the war
* It allows journalists from all over the world to "embed" in different units and transmit live battle conditions via satellite
* In two days of war, more soldiers in the military have died in accidents than in combat (16 vs. 2)
* The number of soldiers killed in combat is so small that each soldier gets his own headline in the news
* It encourages and expects enemy surrenders
* There are people from your own country that travel to the hostile territory to serve as human shields, hoping to level the playing field