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Rare is the military unit with an American soldier who can read a captured document or interrogate a prisoner, my own sources tell me.
It was that way in Vietnam, too, Reyes says, which “haunts us.”
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Well the reason is that we have not learned since Viet Nam to stop all the cuts in the military and then put them into untennable situations!
Additionally, IMHO, it shouldn't be the military that has to make the effort to insert a new government or to play police man. We have some brilliant young men and women in the service, but I always hear that the military can't even do this or that...It's because we (Read Congress
and the Administration) put them into situations they are not equipped nor trained for!
I am watching right now, as we cut 40,000 people, some very sharp officers being put out on their ear. (Unfortunately we are keeping some real knuckle heads but that's another story all together.) yet at the same time I hear this rhetoric about not having Arabic speaking individuals or people that can do this or that. Well, what do we want? A smaller less expensive force? Or someone that can do myriad tasks? Can't have both....that costs too much!