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2006-11-28 Iraq

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-28 12:45|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Go Mongol.

Posted by ed 2006-11-28 13:17|| 2006-11-28 13:17|| Front Page Top

#2 If he can't do it, then declare Iraq's security forces to be in receivership. What does this mean? It means that the security forces of Iraq no longer answer to the Iraqi government, they answer to the US military. The government will still exist. It will still be a democracy.

Think it would be democratic if we did the same thing here. Separate the military from civilian control, just send the bill to Congress to pay every year, like it or not. Heh, right. /sarcasm off.

Posted by Procopius2k 2006-11-28 13:40|| 2006-11-28 13:40|| Front Page Top

#3 --- "Create a crash program to develop a massive Arabic linguistic capability within the US military."? Our fearless leaders have had FIVE F-N YEARS to do this, which is about half the time it takes to train an expert Arabic translator, and more than enough time to train a fairly competent one. Programs for language competence could also have been started at the secondary and collegiate levels, which I recall was done with the Russian language after Sputnik was launched in 1957. A large mass of captured and otherwise acquired intelligence in Arabic continues to go untranslated.
--- The US leadership has never been serious about dealing with the jihad.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-11-28 20:16|| 2006-11-28 20:16|| Front Page Top

#4 The government has posted facsimiles of a great many captured Iraqi documents on some website or other so that we common folk can see and translate if we have the ability, Anguper Hupomosing9418. FoxNews has done several reports -- that I posted on Rantburg in the past year -- of analyses of translations done by a retired intelligence analyst. I believe that the West Point kids are also sinking their teeth into the mass of documents, 'though I've no idea what they're coming up with. And do remember that a goodly proportion of the native translators on the government payroll don't actually have America's best interests at heart, for whatever that's worth. Increasing numbers of college kids are studying the languages of the Muslim world with an eye toward helping the war effort when they get out -- I posted an article on that here within the past month. Is the government as serious as it could be? Of course not, but then I haven't picked up Mr. Wife's 20-year old Arabic textbooks for self-study, so I s'pose I'm part of the problem.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-11-28 21:54|| 2006-11-28 21:54|| Front Page Top

#5 No surprises here, but I do agree in principle within the gener context of securing Iraq. I believe he US mainstream still suppors "Dubya's War" - the US Voter wants to see victory, not retreat or "re-deployment". They know enemy armies will appear on CONUS-NORAMS shore. WOT > WAR FOR THE WORLD + WAR TO THE DEATH, which America MUST WIN NO MATTER HOW MANY NEW 9-11's/AMER HIROSHIMAS TAKE PLACE ON US SOIL. WON'T HAPPEN OVER-NITE, BUT IT IS A WAR TO THE DEATH.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-11-28 23:11|| 2006-11-28 23:11|| Front Page Top

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