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While maintaining a brave face on the hastening stream of bad news coming out of Iraq, the Bush administration appears increasingly at a loss, not to say panicked, about what to do. The dreaded quagmire is transmitting the signs of 'transformation' or rather tag it as a military meltdown.
After the over-stretched combat in Iraq, recruiting new staff is turning out to be the toughest thing for US army today. The Army has assigned more recruiters, pledged more money, and lowered quality standards in an effort to hit its recruiting targets. To combat ever-dwindling enthusiasm among American youth for a career in the military, the Army is enlarging its recruitment staff, loosening age and criminal record restrictions and offering more cash bonuses, such as $45,000 tax-free to buy a house.
The irony is that for three decades, American interventionist policy has been struggling to overcome the Vietnam syndrome but now, having waged a war that was largely supported by Americans despite the perils, the new burdensome Iraq syndrome has renewed the weariness with its paralyzing belief that any large-scale US military intervention abroad is doomed to practical failure and moral iniquity.
In this epic of irony where the sufferers throughout the ever-changing course of war have been the US troops, the affliction never seems to depart. Military life has always been a strain on service members' families but when it comes to immigration infractions, troops' families do not enjoy any special treatment.
The Iraq war has failed in every aspect and the imperial policies of Bush policies has been idiosyncratic that dwindles while confronting the pressing issues at both home and abroad. It does not have to be this way. While faced with unprecedented challenges apart from martial like those of structural reforms, the war-fatigued troops are fast gravitating the tip of the spear.
As long as we are talking irony and oddity, it's worth asking that while keeping the lid on a grim situation, how long can the lower quality and war weary force bear the heavy burden in one of the world's most bleeding battle fields, how long can the Army and Marines shoulder the casualty burden in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, when, the pride with which the world's most powerful nation entered Iraq in March 2003 has been severely dented, the 'twisted tale' has yet to near the most horrific episode when Bush finally packs up his office at the White House hoping that the enemy will get exhausted before the Americans do.
