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September 29, 2004
So Maybe It's Not That They're Undertrained
You know how we keep hearing the reason Iraqi forces cannot take over "fighting terrorists" is because they haven't been trained sufficiently? We already knew something was wrong with the portrayal -- in Fallujah and in Najaf, Iraqi soldiers refused to fight their countrymen on behalf of the occupiers. Here's a direct acknowledgement of the possibility that this is the real problem:
Reports from Iraq have made one Army staff officer question whether adequate progress is being made there."They keep telling us that Iraqi security forces are the exit strategy, but what I hear from the ground is that they aren't working," he said. "There's a feeling that Iraqi security forces are in cahoots with the insurgents and the general public to get the occupiers out."
Well, how surprising. A nation which does not want to be occupied, who would've thought of that? The above was from a Post article that basically reports the known known about the state of the occupation. There is also a NY Times article out today which is accompanied by a very telling map of the geographic distribution and method of attacks in the last 30 days alone. Take a look. Basically, practically everywhere, they are throwing whatever they can get their hands on at the occupation forces.
Posted by zeynep at September 29, 2004 12:57 AM
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Something y'all may find interesting from the latest issue (Oct. 11) of the Nation:
One hundred years ago, in the wake of England's ruinous victory in the Boer War, a young Liberal politician excoriated the ruling Conservative Party and its imperial scam: "A party of great vested interests, banded together in a formidable confederation, corruption at home, aggression to cover it up abroad...sentiment by the bucketful, patriotism by the imperial pint, the open hand at the public exchequer, the open door at the public house, dear food for the millions, cheap labor for the millionaire."...
Guess who the young politico was?
Hint: He later became a staunch defender of empire, viz: "I did not become Her Majesty's
First Minister so that I might oversee the liquidation of the British Empire!"
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