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4/18/2013 11:57 PM  Same old mistakes  Is America confused
today? "Yes" is the answer. To make the point, I'll tell a true
story.  In 1979, as an Army major I was assigned to the U.N. in
Lebanon. As the only plans officer for the force, I was
responsible for deployment, movement, certain liaison activity
and other concerns.   In 1975, the Lebanese government
collapsed; the Lebanese Civil War began. With a dysfunctional
government, the military was inept, under-sourced and poorly
trained. The U.S. spent untold millions in treasure working to
reconstruct the Lebanese government and military.  By 1979, the
force had been reconstructed, so the government made a Lebanese
infantry battalion available to coexist with the U.N. forces in
the South.  I wrote and supervised the