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Iraq
NYT: Will It Work on the Battlefield?
2006-12-07
Being dissed right out of the gate by the NYT. Yep, this puppy's DOA.
The military recommendations issued yesterday by the Iraq Study Group are based more on hope than history and run counter to assessments made by some of its own military advisers. Ever since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the United States has struggled in vain to tamp down the violence in Iraq and to build up the capacity of IraqÂ’s security forces. Now the study group is positing that the United States can accomplish in little more than one year what it has failed to carry out in three.

In essence, the study group is projecting that a rapid infusion of American military trainers will so improve the Iraqi security forces that virtually all of the American combat brigades may be withdrawn by the early part of 2008. “By the first quarter of 2008, subject to unexpected developments in the security situation on the ground, all combat brigades not necessary for force protection could be out of Iraq,” the study group says.

Jack Keane, the retired Army chief of staff who served on the group’s panel of military advisers, described that goal as entirely impractical. “Based on where we are now we can’t get there,” General Keane said in an interview, adding that the report’s conclusions say more about “the absence of political will in Washington than the harsh realities in Iraq.”
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#1  Once the Sunni-Shia sectarianism is won by one side, any anti-US/Western elements will turn next agz the US-suppor Government. Just as US Lefties are describing Communism-Socialism in Amer AS ANYTHING BUT. SO ALSO IS "RETREAT/DEFEAT" NOT BEING CALLED SAME BY AMER's OWN LEADERS. Whom is going to believe, even amongst world Islam, that "Training Standards-Criterions" will be maintained in the absence of US-led nation building + likely on-going, pervasive Sectarianism including agz the US-led authorities.
GET REAL.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-12-07 00:40  

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