Caspar Weinberger's recent book "The Next War" is pure trash - and I haven't read it and don't plan to either. This neoconservative clown is playing on totally unrealistic fears to promote the "lunatic leader scenario" threat to US security. Any political leader in any country, in order to justify engaging the US in a conventional war, is going to have to assume that the United States leadership is willing to accept large casualties in a losing war for a meaningful engagement without escalating to much higher levels - and that's the best case scenario! The worst case scenario is a Iraqi style drubbing: a human blood bath of catastrophic proportions with few american casualties. The logic behind these scenarios is pathetic. A large scale war with meaningful objectives between major powers is obsolete, but otherwise intelligent neoconservative dinosaurs like Weinberger persist in these fantastic unbelievable nightmare scenarios to scare citizen taxpayers who remember when wars between major powers could be fought and won. It is easy to speculate about such fanciful scenarios when one really doesn't plan on initiating such stupid, nonsensical, counterproductive, inane, and looney military engagements. How stupid and gullible do they believe the citizen taxpayer to be? They surely can't believe their own hysterical rhetoric; they aren't planning on initiating one of these silly wars - or are they?
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