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2008-07-25 Iraq

Iraqi society modeled like the Crips and the Bloods

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-07-25 10:49|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Shiites and Sunnis. Same thing. Probably worse.

Posted by tu3031 2008-07-25 11:33|| 2008-07-25 11:33|| Front Page Top

#2 "Seems like most Iraqis either want someone to tell them what to do, or want to be the guy issuing the orders and death sentences."
Submission and blood. Sounds as much like the prophet (peas be upon him) as the Crips and Bloods.

Posted by Darrell 2008-07-25 12:13|| 2008-07-25 12:13|| Front Page Top

#3 We're stuck with the results of the Saddamite oppression, when the various groups took help from wherever they could find it. In another decade those ties may well matter not at all, politicians being for the most part faithless creatures.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-07-25 12:57|| 2008-07-25 12:57|| Front Page Top

#4 We should have just kept it for ourselves. These toads have always preferred killing each other to building a country. What shall become of them.

Posted by bigjm-ky 2008-07-25 13:46|| 2008-07-25 13:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Is it safe: dissing the Crips and the Bloods this way?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-07-25 15:20|| 2008-07-25 15:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Then the US forces must be "Officer Krumsky"

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-07-25 18:17|| 2008-07-25 18:17|| Front Page Top

#7 I find this article filled with what I believe to be simplistic half-truths. Yes, to some extent there is a culture of "following the leader" and it is going to take two or three generations to change that. Things like that are impossible to change by decree or training.

Americans just seem to have no sense that some things take longer than an election cycle to fix and when it comes to core behaviors and basically, reflexive responses to things, you need to have a population that was raised in the new reality, not one simply exposed to it.

The generation children now in Iraq will make a completely different reality when they take the reigns of power ... in 40 years time.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-07-25 22:03|| 2008-07-25 22:03|| Front Page Top

#8 Officer Krupke, Jim.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2008-07-25 22:38|| 2008-07-25 22:38|| Front Page Top

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