Sanchez blasts U.S. Iraq policy

Three and half years after he stepped down from the command of U.S. forces in Iraq, former Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez has declared in a speech to military journalists that he agrees with what that great military expert Lawrence Auster has been repeatedly saying since 2003, that we have never had, and, despite the surge, still do not have, a strategy to win in Iraq, and that all we are doing there is treading water, in the hope that something will happen to save the situation.

But Sanchez reserved most of his venom Friday for U.S. officials, saying the U.S. government still has not brought all the resources needed to win in Iraq.

“From a catastrophically flawed, unrealistically optimistic war plan, to the administration’s latest surge strategy, this administration has failed to employ and synchronize the political, economic and military power,” Sanchez said.

Continuing changes to military strategy alone will not achieve victory, rather it will only “stave off defeat,” he said.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at October 13, 2007 10:59 AM | Send