In determining the root cause of the post-invasion failure of the American military mission in Iraq, Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez is clear: It wasn’t a lack of military might that brought about the failure. It was a lack of moral courage.
“It was an absolute lack of moral courage to stand up and do what was right in terms of planning. And we allowed ourselves to believe that we, in fact, would be liberators. That was unacceptable in my view,” Sanchez says.
The right wing prides itself on lecturing the rest of America on moral values, but it appears that they have some moral considerations of their own to undertake. As Sanchez suggests, they appear to have mistaken the power to fight with a moral reason for fighting.
(Source: Voice of America, October 12, 2007)
