General Myers: a SENSITIVE failure as a warrior?

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by all accounts, Afghanistan is a miserable failure

is it because General Myers was too SENSITIVE to TERRORISTS' needs?

you be the judge, based on this interview with him during the early days of the Afghan invasion:

Q: If it's going to continue after 25 days, is going to take much time and you are willing to give it that time, how about Ramadan? Do you consider a break, a halt during that time?

Myers: I would just remind people that this is a war on terrorism. If we go back to the events of 11 September of this year when innocent people were intentionally targeted -- people of all races, of all colors, of all religions died, innocents. They were not engaged in any war that they knew of. If we understand that that's what we're at war against -- we're at war against terrorism, the fact that we're coming up on Ramadan, this war will have to continue.

We're doing this to defend ourselves, and this is all of us and all freedom-loving people and all our partners. This is an effort and an issue of defense. We did not choose to do this. The folks that attacked the World Trade Center and attacked the Pentagon were the ones that chose this conflict.

We will try to be as culturally sensitive as we can, but at the same time given that we don't know if the terrorists are going to take any pause during any particular time of year, in fact most likely they will not -- they have not in the past -- we should consider that we'll continue this war on terrorism through Ramadan.
http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2001/t11052001_t031cjcs.html

note how all the criticism of Bush's use of the word is based on the assertion that he used it BEFORE 911.

check this site for a bunch more sensitive quotes
http://www.liberaloasis.com/archives/080804.htm

it's the green part

pugs LIE all the time, about everything