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Originally posted by cmccuist
Al qaida is more media savy than Madona and Paris Hilton combined. 14 of the 19 provinces in Iraq are peaceful and functioning well. The surge is working in the other 5 provinces, but Patraeus needs more time . (Krauthammer column)
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Read the K article. I think the failure of the Right is to continually ascribe Western values and thinking to Iraqis. This is a critical failure. It's as though the entire Iraq experience has taught you nothing.
of course these sheiks are happy to have US Military doing their heavy lifting! Essentially the US is putting our soldier's lives on the line to consolidate power for the Sheiks.
Here's the failure on your thought process. If they were doing this for say, Springfield, IL, it would work. The mayor and city council would be overjoyed and the town would prosper for the benefit of its citizens. You're thinking these sheiks are like us.
they are not.
in Iraq, power is consolidated and then used in the Shiite vs. Sunni civil war. AQ is an unwanted 3rd party, nothing more. AQ wasn't germane to iraq, but came in only after seeing what a great recruitment tool it could be. They are essentially getting in the way of the Sunni-Shiite 3000 year old battle. Combine that with the Iraqi government achieving nothing in the last 2 years and you have some feel good moments in a big picture of crap.
You need to stop thinking Iraqi's are like us and appreciate our help. They like us only because we are doing their heavy lifting, and it is on our backs, and our young men's lives that they are building their own powerbases from which to wage war on each other.