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ron janesh 09/13/2008 05:00 AM Report
Thanks to Mr Coll for his views......I believe that we need to get out of
dodge at the earliest opportunity. That means 86 Bush policy in SW Asiaand tear up the credit cards that are financing this series of escapadesbegun during the 80's.Be assured that once we leave blood will flow as it always has.....our collaborators will be hung like King Faisal in Iraq in 1923 and the peoples of the area from Iraq to Pakistan will sort out their own affairs.Our efforts will, at best be remembered as, strange, shadowy and murderous machinations.
The entire area will resemble for decades the long string of failed
businesses of GW Bush. Not only are we not greeks, nor romans nor
even english.....our efforts had a childlike naivete.
Neil MacCallister 09/11/2008 06:59 PM Report
Thank you Mr. Coll. The Mid-East is growing rapidly, and I am glad Gen. Patraeus is moving to "Central Command" next week: He chaired quite a "turn-around" in Iraq. I am glad to know he is keeping a close eye on ALL the players in that region. But on the issue of Pakistan, you say they are "suspicious of the United States". Why? What do they think we are there for, if not the simple reduction of terrorist threats to the world at large? Perhaps you answer that question in your book "Ghost Wars", or your book "The Bin Ladens." (..Or perhaps a blogger here knows?)
joedoves 09/09/2008 12:11 PM Report
See how the truth barely merges from these folks.
McCain's 'victory'= Surge = 'counterinsurgency tactics'= paying $300 a week to Sunni insurgents not to kill US troops=
violence lowered due to ethnic cleansing having been accomplished all ready, targeted assasinations, etc...
This is just too much truth for american voters..this will not be made an election issue-so McCain's Surge-talk will get a pass.
Neither Obama nor Biden can't bear to tell the truth and so are giving McCain a freebie.
Frankly, that's what I find to be 'despicable'.
joedoves 09/09/2008 12:10 PM Report
See how the truth barely merges from these folks.
McCain's 'victory'= Surge = 'counterinsurgency tactics'= paying $300 a week to Sunni insurgents not to kill US troops=
violence lowered due to ethnic cleansing having been accomplished all ready, targeted assasinations, etc...
This is just too much truth for american voters..this will not be made an election issue-so McCain's Surge-talk will get a pass.
Neither Obama nor Biden can't bear to tell the truth and so are giving McCain a freebie.
Frankly, that's what I find to be 'despicable'.
sock puppet 09/09/2008 01:41 AM Report
Another revelation about the Iraq surge. He stated that it's success started and depended on Sunni tribesmen. So the success will only really be attained when and IF the Sunni's will accede to being controlled by a Shia government. Problematical I'm bettin, whether its 1, 2 or 20 years hence.
sock puppet 09/09/2008 01:29 AM Report
Pakistan / Afghanistan is developing into our next collosal and stature diminishing failure. They are laughing up their sleeve as they take our largesse. Our (misdirected by vengeful tribes) missile strikes killing civilians as acceptable (to us) as collateral damage is creating long term insurgency-type resistance that will make our failure inevitable. Financially we can't sustain these (mis)adventures anyway. And we're a slow study.