Pentagon Quotes
Every military establishment has secrets that they should maintain and are not always forthcoming with facts d explanations. However, the Pentagon is so large with so many layers that there are subgroups and vested interests, prevaricate and lie, even to their own superiors. No one knows how prevalent this is, but there have be a number of major incidents where the were lies and cover-ups—usually to prevent public embarrassment to some element of the military industrial complex.
There was reluctance throughout the government to avoid using “the G word.” See {41333}
See {637982} for one of the major reasons.
The line was delivered by Sellers playing the President of the United States in a War Room crisis.
Incredibly, most of the administration’s appointees to handle the occupation after the Iraq War invasion were chosen for their ideological conformity to George W. Bush and the neoconservatives rather than their experience at anything much less governance or Arab culture. Almost none spoke Arabic, almost none had ever studied the Arab World, much less traveled in the Middle East. Strikingly, almost none even prepared themselves by studying the history, sociology or economics of the region, and few knew anything about Islamic culture.
