tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post6626606217166791071..comments2024-03-28T21:41:32.110-04:00Comments on Grim's Hall: Only thinkGrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-11982606765750841512014-06-25T23:22:55.848-04:002014-06-25T23:22:55.848-04:00Honor belongs only to individuals. The idea that a...Honor belongs only to individuals. The idea that anyone can trust a government, even a superpower like the US, seemed wholly ridiculous to me as the years went on.<br /><br />Ymar Sakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-18871589098887778782014-06-25T23:21:57.840-04:002014-06-25T23:21:57.840-04:00Engineered failure, due to too much golf and Valer...Engineered failure, due to too much golf and Valerie Jarret, HRC Muslim Brotherhood "stuff".Ymar Sakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-26075194601440079262014-06-25T10:51:38.337-04:002014-06-25T10:51:38.337-04:00There is something of this in that. We promised m...There is something of this in that. We promised much to the tribes who joined us in the Awakening: chiefly, we promised them that we would stand guarantor for the fulfillment of the promises the government in Baghdad made them about fair treatment and reconciliation. The abrupt withdrawal made it impossible to keep those promises; even the State Department couldn't oversee them, as it could not leave the embassy given a lack of a legal framework entitling them to provide themselves with security that was immune to local prosecution.<br /><br />In the end, this is partially on us -- because the government elected not to keep the word given by its agents. Our national honor was greatly diminished, as honor always is, by the breaking of our word.Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.com