We have heard nothing but how asymmetric this war is, how shape...

[bridgit]

shifting, multi-layer & interchangeable this war and enemy are both...then why are we endeavoring, why are we having to endure vietnam style air cav operations? Why are we still playing Jolly Green Giant, to an enemy prone to being blown on the wind like a handful of wheat husks?

'Indeed, crossing the deadly zone became the tactical problem of the day, and military theorists in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States spared no effort in attempting to solve it. If this problem remained unsolved, decisive victory would vanish from the military lexicon and warfare would become nothing more than an exercise in attrition. Such an outcome represented either a failure of arms or an absence of military genius, each equally unacceptable to the military professional. Proposed solutions to the crisis assumed many forms. Fundamentally, however, military theorists believed that achieving fire superiority at the decisive point would allow the attacker to overwhelm the defender and restore mobility to the battlefield.'

This from a piece published published circa-the-year Rumsfeld, Kristol, et al; implored Clinton to attack Iraq and receive their full backing,

http://cpof.ida.org/PARAMETERS,%20US%20Army%20War%20College%20Quarterly%20-%20Autumn%201998.htm

Has their downfall; Is their downfall, their inability to understand, a form of a high functioning adult ADD? A form a literate, functional illiteracy? Or is it a simple by-product of hegemonic hubris, and braggadocio?

Cause these guys still do not even understand the language & essential customs of the enemy they ignore first & foremost.

They, in the end, do not even understand us, the American people.