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January 19th, 2005
Max Hastings: “Having begun the campaign convinced of the justice of their cause and their ability to secure victory, many members of the US military and their families now suspect that the cause may be invalid and the battle unwinnable.”
Although his most recent book has come in for some criticism in US blogs, Hastings is a well-connected and experienced observer of the military. What I found interesting was his conclusion:
| I do not think the US armed forces will achieve their military purposes in Iraq. The American soldiers who have become pessimistic about the campaign they are waging are probably right. But in a long historic view, Microsoft and DreamWorks could achieve a dominance of Baghdad and a power over Iraqi society that eludes George Bush and his armoured legions. |