Asking the wrong questions?
 

Are our leaders asking the wrong questions, and making wrong assumptions regarding the war in Iraq? Lt. Col. Craig T. Trebilcock thinks so, and makes his argument in this 6 page document. It's an easy read.

http://www.ausa.org/pdfdocs/ArmyMag/Feb07/Trebilcock.pdf

His points are good ones, but I'd like to discuss the term and meaning Bedouin (pillar 2) as it's the basic for many of his comments.

The birthplace of civilization going back to the Bronze Age is where the Euphrates and Tigris meet (near Baghdad) and has never been considered Bedouin in a true sense, has it? I do strongly agree that the culture is tribal, not bedouin.

What the author explains all makes perfect sense, I just want to offer another cultural stumbling block which was not gone over in much detail. It comes down to contract law (not criminal law) and being able to keep a promise.

Richard J. Maybury
http://www.chaostan.com/bulletin-050303.html
War—The Big Picture
May-2003

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Second site about the term:
http://www.joshuaproject.net/peopctry.php?rop3=101196&rog3=IZ
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