Trouble In Iraq?
Here's a quick, unrefined thought, before I go to work.
What do you think the likely effects would be if we pulled our security forces out of the neighborhoods where we were unwelcome and funnelled the Iraqi security forces there to fill the void? IE, redistribute our and their security forces so that we had the "cake" assignments in places like soon-to-be-renamed Iraqi Kurdistan and soon-to-be-renamed Iraqi Shiiteistan? That way, they could concentrate their soldiers and police officers on the Sunni Triangle (aka, soon-to-be-renamed Sunni Triangleistan) where there is heavy US resentment and relieve the sense that we are brutal occupiers there? I would think that we would still be responsible for carrying out military operations all throughout the country (as we have a very functional and efficient military, rather than police force) and doing things like "mop up" operations, invasions on insurgent strongholds, and border control. As for being Globocops, however, lets leave that to the Iraqis, except in the places in which we are welcome (for the most part).
It just strikes me that intelligence is the most important factor in an insurgency, and if we keep pissing off the Sunni neighborhoods, they aren't going to pass any of it along to us.
As Rodney King said, "Can't we all just get along?"
By the way, I am OPENLY SOLICITING FEEDBACK here--please post or I'll steal your first born. (unless you're fed up with the little brat, in which case I'll drop mine off for you to take care of too!)
What do you think the likely effects would be if we pulled our security forces out of the neighborhoods where we were unwelcome and funnelled the Iraqi security forces there to fill the void? IE, redistribute our and their security forces so that we had the "cake" assignments in places like soon-to-be-renamed Iraqi Kurdistan and soon-to-be-renamed Iraqi Shiiteistan? That way, they could concentrate their soldiers and police officers on the Sunni Triangle (aka, soon-to-be-renamed Sunni Triangleistan) where there is heavy US resentment and relieve the sense that we are brutal occupiers there? I would think that we would still be responsible for carrying out military operations all throughout the country (as we have a very functional and efficient military, rather than police force) and doing things like "mop up" operations, invasions on insurgent strongholds, and border control. As for being Globocops, however, lets leave that to the Iraqis, except in the places in which we are welcome (for the most part).
It just strikes me that intelligence is the most important factor in an insurgency, and if we keep pissing off the Sunni neighborhoods, they aren't going to pass any of it along to us.
As Rodney King said, "Can't we all just get along?"
By the way, I am OPENLY SOLICITING FEEDBACK here--please post or I'll steal your first born. (unless you're fed up with the little brat, in which case I'll drop mine off for you to take care of too!)
posted by sadiq at 11/22/2005 09:08:00 AM
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Iraq seems to want to push the issue of foriegn troops withdrawing ASAP. The latest communique from Cairo is pretty explicit upon setting a timetable for withdrawal and they are indicating that it should be sooner rather than later.
Our government has said repeatedly that if the Iraq government tells us to leave we will.
This is basically confirming Murtha's arguments.
Yay! Then lets do it, but lets do it in accordance with the will of the people!
One of my major concerns right now is that the Iraqi people are going to have a sore spot in their hearts that they weren't asked. A lot of them see the current government as being propped up and installed by the US, and they don't accept their leadership as anything but American puppets. Having a bunch of community leaders getting together in Cairo to stand against the position of the official Iraqi government just sows the seeds for strife and puts them one step further on the path to civil war. On the other hand, a referendum, by which the Iraqi people make the decision for themselves, will do a couple of things: first, it won't let them continue to blame someone else, either the US or the US installed "puppet government"; and second, it will make them think long and hard about what they are willing to accept and what they aren't, removing the "backlash" effect in the court of public opinion. In short, it will make the Iraqis own the problem themselves.
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