Military Purpose Quotes
Four years later the President embarked on a nation-building effort in Iraq which was beset with many problems.
Marshall was then the chief of staff of the army. And political groups were trying to organize soldiers to support or oppose different legislation affecting the military. Subsequently, the role of active duty military personnel in politics was severely circumscribed by law and regulations.
1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
3 years later he led America on a huge invasion and nation building project in Iraq. It turned out that had he listened to his own advice and not flip-flopped, the huge cost of the Iraq War might have been avoided.
The Wars continued over a decade, costing thousands of American (and Coalition) troops their lives, many more their limbs and mental well-being, with a monetary cost of over trillions of dollars, and the achievements have been few and meager.
This may have been one of the most indelicate and insensitive true public statements ever made by a politician. The English population and their political representatives were angry and worried very much that bombing of cities might become a German pattern (which it did.)
