Post-traumatic Iraq Syndrome

A defeatist by the name of Christopher J. Fettweis, assistant professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, has declared the Iraq war lost and says we need to begin dealing with the aftermath.

OK, he's entitled to his opinion, but it doesn't make it indelible fact.

The endgame in Iraq is now clear, in outline if not detail, and it appears that the heavily favored United States will be upset. Once support for a war is lost, it is gone for good; there is no example of a modern democracy having changed its mind once it turned against a war. So we ought to start coming to grips with the meaning of losing in Iraq.

The consequences for the national psyche are likely to be profound, throwing American politics into a downward spiral of bitter recriminations the likes of which it has not seen in a generation. It will be a wedge that politicians will exploit for their benefit, proving yet again that politics is the eternal enemy of strategy. The Vietnam syndrome divided this country for decades; the Iraq syndrome will be no different.

The battle for interpretation has already begun, with fingers of blame pointed in all directions in hastily written memoirs. The war's supporters have staked out their position quite clearly: Attacking Iraq was strategically sound but operationally flawed. Key decisions on troop levels, de-Baathification, the disbanding of the Iraqi army and the like doomed what otherwise would have been a glorious war.

So I decided to check out just who this Fettweis is and found and article of his posted at Centre for Research and Globalization, entitled "Eurasia, the "World Island": Geopolitics, and Policymaking in the 21st Century", Eurasia, the "World Island": Geopolitics, and Policymaking in the 21st Century". Make of that what you wish, and I recommend reading it, but curiously, on the home page of that site one can find announcements for an Impeach Bush Rally scheduled for today in Palo Alto, for the Vancouver 9/11 Truth Conference, and something called the Pentagon's Second 9/11. Note some of the attendees at the conference:

Speakers / Presenters and their Subjects:

Prof. Kevin Barrett (U. Madison) lecturer, activist and radio talkshow host, author of "Truth Jihad: My Epic Struggle Against the 9/11 Big Lie" will speak on "How We Know It was an Inside Job". He will also be the conference MC.

Mr. Webster Griffin Tarpley, journalist and author of “Synthetic Terror: Made in the USA” on the History of False-Flag Terrorism and 9/11 as a False Flag Psy Op.

Prof. Peter Dale Scott, (U. Berkley) author, journalist, poet, and former Canadian Diplomat on Drugs, Oil, and War as well Parallels between the JFK Assassination and 9/11

Prof. Steven E. Jones, (formerly of B.Y.U.) on his published paper entitled "Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Completely Collapse" and the scientific, forensic evidence for the use of thermate in the destruction of the WTC.

Mr. Rowland Morgan UK, journalist and author of "Flight 93 Revealed" on Flight 93 Anomalies which indicate that Flight 93 was shot down

A rather dubious group of crackpots.

None of this is to imply Mr. Fettweis is a Truther, but it's curious that he's been listed at this site. It's rather disturbing to see that we have a representative of the U.S. Naval War College not only being such a defeatist, but also associated with 9/11 Truthers.