UK Commander says America lacks Intellect

It is not only Muslims and Europeans who says US is stupid and cannot think.

British General also says America is thick.

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[b]British army chief attacks US as 'intellectually bankrupt' over Iraq[/b]

Peter Richards, The Guardian - Saturday September 1, 2007

The former head of the British Army has attacked US postwar policy, calling it "intellectually bankrupt".

General Sir Mike Jackson, who headed the army during the war in Iraq, described as "nonsensical" the claim by the former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that US forces "don't do nation-building". He has also hit back at suggestions that British forces had failed in Basra.

Mr Rumsfeld was "one of the most responsible for the current situation in Iraq," Gen Jackson says in his autobiography, Soldier. He describes Washington's approach to fighting global terrorism as "inadequate" for relying on military power over diplomacy and nation-building.

Last week General Jack Keane, a US commander just returned from Iraq, said the security situation in southern Iraq was "deteriorating" and there was "general disengagement" by the British military in Basra. But Gen Jackson told the Daily Telegraph, which is serialising his book: "I don't think that's a fair assessment.

"What has happened in the south, as in the rest of Iraq, was that primary responsibility for security would be handed to the Iraqis once the Iraqi authorities and the coalition were satisfied their training and development was appropriate.

"In the south we had responsibility for four provinces. Three of these have been handed over in accordance with that strategy."

He is also critical of the decision to hand control of planning the administration of Iraq to the Pentagon, and said disbanding the Iraqi army and security forces had been "very short-sighted".

The Pentagon said divergent views were a "hallmark of open, democratic societies".

I suppose Satan did not learn its lesson in Vietnam.

Iraqis will have to teach him all over again.

America is a country, not a person.

By calling it think you probably mean it is wide. or long. or has a thick crust.

"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.

"malik" wrote:
It is not only Muslims and Europeans who says US is stupid and cannot think.

British General also says America is thick.

Last time I cheked, Britain was in Europe.

Don't just do something! Stand there.