Evaluating Teh Surge
Uncategorized - - Posted on March, 3 at 2:07 pm by Ken L
Opinions vary about the impact of the ’surge’ in Iraq and the reasons for any effects that it has had. One frequent point made is that the decline in violence has largely been achieved by paying ex Sunni insurgents to support the American occupation forces … a situation which would seem to be quite precarious and unlikely to endure in the long term.
An informative piece in Stars and Stripes ends with this perceptive observation:
Still, commanders acknowledge that in the absence of political and economic progress, the Sons of Iraq groups could backfire in the long run. As it is, 1,600 mostly Sunni men here and an estimated 80,000 across Iraq are being paid to stand armed in the road, with little view of future prospects and deep ambivalence toward their government.
No wonder the military commanders in Iraq are being far more cautious than the neo-cons back home in hyping the effectiveness of the surge.
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March 4th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
A far better plan than any surges is to just piss off out of Iraq cos they shouldna been there in the 1st friggin place.
Beep,beep!
March 4th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Conclusion. It has a long, long way to go.
March 4th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Why do you spell “the” as “teh”..what is funny about a typo or mis-selling…nonsense!!Stop this childish behaviour!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 6th, 2008 at 12:04 am
Good question tamurlane. Explain teh in-joke.
March 6th, 2008 at 8:56 am
I find that joke especially annoying as I can’t stop doing it accidentally myself. In fact it gets wirse daily. I also tend to hit “i” when I want “o” and vice versa.
Stop making fun of my disability!
March 6th, 2008 at 11:26 am
Oooo look exclamation marks!!! Wheeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 6th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Goood wars, bad wars or average wars, none of them stack up to the real McCoy apparently http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23327948-23109,00.html
March 6th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
And don’t you lot get Kevvy all revved up on the war on self-terrorisn for chrissakes, or we’ll all be sorry.
March 6th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Hey Obs, we should try the neocon solution to self terrorism, and hang everyone pre-emptively.
March 7th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Small explosion hits New York’s Times Square
Call out the B-52’s. Carpet bomb Manhatten. There’s terrorists down there. Or maybe a few Tomahawk missiles from offshore? Never mind collateral damage. After all, what’s good enough for Baghdad is surely good enough for New York.