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Iraq |
Iraqi: 'I killed her with a machine gun' |
2008-05-22 |
Posted by:Fred |
#8 embedding with Iraqi units as advisers Some Iraqi units are willing to embed with the Brits to advise them? |
Posted by: Glenmore 2008-05-22 19:18 |
#7 Welcome to the real world ZF. That's why over the last 6 1/2 years I've come to advocate bringing the troops home and raising tariffs. Maybe we will return when needed and maybe we won't. Much depends on their attitude and willingness to share the burden. |
Posted by: ed 2008-05-22 12:34 |
#6 ed: It's not their war. The Brit's are doing a lot more than any of our other allies. The US lost 100,000 men in WWI in a war that wasn't technically our war. In WWII, we also lost 350,000 men fighting the Germans and Italians in a war that wasn't really our war either. Note that in neither instance were we attacked first by our adversaries in Europe. The Brits clearly think it's a big deal to be helping us out in Iraq, but their losses have been nugatory. I think there's this perception that we are obligated to fight their wars, but that they're not obligated to fight our wars. |
Posted by: Zhang Fei 2008-05-22 12:03 |
#5 Besides which, the Brits have a situation at home that defies imagination. The quaint old Briton loosely surrounding pockets of third world milieu amid modern urban sprawl. |
Posted by: wxjames 2008-05-22 11:23 |
#4 True, no more theirs than ours. |
Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-05-22 10:39 |
#3 It's not their war. The Brit's are doing a lot more than any of our other allies. |
Posted by: ed 2008-05-22 10:18 |
#2 The Brits have neither a Bush nor a Petraeus. |
Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-05-22 10:08 |
#1 British troops have returned to the city, adopting the U.S. approach of embedding with Iraqi units as advisers. The Iraqi prime minister also has flooded the city with additional troops, bringing in soldiers from western Iraq along with their American advisers. Why did this take so long? Remember the Brit generals ragging on the US approach earlier on? I fear they've become EUro-ized |
Posted by: Spot 2008-05-22 09:51 |