How come our government, military commanders and congress don't seem to know what so many of us do about Iraq

Question

I like the reports and comments i see and read above but...

How come our leaders, our military commanders and our administration show no signs of knowing the situation

Answer 1

It's not that they don't know, but that they don't care. They had an agenda when they came into office and they are deadset on accomplishing that agenda. Period.

Answer 2

The government knows more than people think they do. Most Americans that are dismayed at the situation in Iraq consider the government incompetent, but these are very intelligent and capable people, like them or not. There is much information that the American people do not need to know. The gov can't share everything it knows for security reasons. You occassionally hear in the media about the inhumane treatement of war prisoners or suspects. When the military is sure that captives have info that is needed in order to protects our troops or citizens, they do what they need to get the info. They can't tell the public what they do to get it, but it must be done.

It's easy for most people, notoriously the democrats, to point the finger and criticize, but all of us had better be glad that the people leading the country and the war efforts are as intelligent and capable as they are. As far as the democrats, they learned last election and they'll learn the next one that they need to do more than point the fingers and place the blame. They need to come up with some answers and plans of action. I've heard none from any of them.

Answer 3

Oh, I see. The Government and Military Commanders are all ignorant and misinformed, while YOU have the secret key to true knowledge about the situation by reading the newspapers and folks like erudite and Navy Seal here on Yahoo Answers.

Perhaps you should sign up so you can show them the error of their ways, and make them get it right so there will never, ever be war ever again. I'm sure you'd rise right to the top of the hierarchy in no time. 8^Þ

Answer 4

I agree about the administration, but not about the military leaders. How many have asked for more troops (years ago), said the situation is a loss, said we shouldn't go, that we couldn't win? I think the administration has a different agenda than we do.

Answer 5

Elitism and the privilidged are who attend the Ivy league schools and thus have access to the rsources and the money!

Elitists rarely come down from the clouds, they always have it sticking up there!

But in fairness;

The signs of corruption.--Consider the following signs of those states of society which are necessary from time to time and which are designated with the word "corruption." As soon as corruption sets in anywhere superstition becomes rank. and the previous common faith of a people becomes pale and powerless against it. For superstition is second-order free spirit: those who surrender to it choose certain forms and formulas that they find congenial and permit themselves some freedom of choice. Whoever is superstitious is always, compared with the religious human being, much more of a person; and a superstitious society is one in which there are many individuals and much delight in individuality...

Second, a society in which corruptions spreads is accused of exhaustion... But what is generally overlooked is that the ancient national energy and national passion that became gloriously visible in war and warlike games have now been transmuted into countless private passions and have merely become less visible. Indeed, in times of "corruption" the power and force of the national energies that are expended are probably greater than ever and the individual squanders them as lavishly as he could not have formerly when he was simply not yet rich enough. Thus it is precisely in times of "exhaustion" that tragedy runs through houses and streets, that great love and great hatred are born, and that the flame of knowledge flares up into the sky.

Third, it is usually said... that such times of corruption are gentler and that cruelty declines drastically, compared with the old, stronger age which was more given to faith. All I concede is that cruelty now becomes more refined and that its older forms henceforth offend the new taste; but the art of wounding and torturing others with words and looks reaches its supreme development...The men of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know of types of murder that require neither daggers nor assault; they know that whatever is said well is believed.

Fourth, when "morals decay" those men emerge whom one calls tyrants: they are the precursors and as it were the precocious harbingers of individuals... In these ages bribery and treason reach their peak, for the love of the newly discovered ego is much more powerful now than the love of the old, used-up "fatherland"... Individuals--being truly in-and-for-themselves-- care, as is well known, more for the moment than do their opposites, the herd men... The times of corruption are those when the apples fall from the tree: I mean the individuals, for they carry the seeds of the future and are the authors of the spiritual colonization and origin of new states and communities. Corruption is merely a nasty word for the autumn of a people.

from Nietzsche's The Gay Science, s. 23, Walter Kaufmann transl

Answer 6

People like you are the reason the Founders limited direct representation to one-half of one branch of the government. How can you honestly believe that, sitting in your living room, you know more than commanders in the field and the Commander-In-Chief. These people have access to information you never will. You make me very sad for my country.

Answer 7

I agree with Tom Jr., what makes you think you know more sitting in your living room than those in intelligence and those on the frontline? And let's say that by some chance that you did know more, then why are you not doing anything about it and letting needless people die?

Answer 8

Yeah, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN & the rest, they are all MUCH better sources of intel and info than troops in the field, well-trained & experienced commanders, the largest intelligence-gathering systems in the world, etc.

All our leaders have to do is watch the news, & they would know EVERYTHING they need to know.........After all, if it's on the news, it MUST BE TRUE!!!!

And if you believe THAT, I have a mountain chalet in Florida you would be interested in............

Answer 9

Oh I am sure that us setting here listening to bias t.v. news and reading comments on y/a's know SO much more than those in the middle of things knows. right!

Answer 10

I'm sure they know what is going on, but rather than admit that they were wrong and are continuing to make wrong decisions, they have chosen to continue to lie and cover up. Rather than represent the people that elected them to office, they would rather follow their own agenda and keep making money for the war machine corporations. Record profits for the Petrol Companies!!! To Hell with the population!!

Answer 11

And what is it that we know that they don't know... the slanted drivel spilled out from the liberal media? They know more than you will ever know about the situation.