PROGRESS IN IRAQ ISN'T WHAT IT SEEMS
Has anyone noticed how quiet things have gotten lately over in Iraq?
Oh, let's not chalk it up to "progress" as the military continues to paint it--making us all believe that this surge has somehow--magically--transformed Iraq into some fantasy fairy tale straight out of a Walt Disney movie studio.
We all should know by now that the military has failed in its objective to transform Iraq into some kind of plutocratic democracy full of laughing and cheerful Iraqis.
In many respects, the military hasn't succeeded at all in many of its operations. It still hasn't achieved a full measure of peace and the Iraqi people still very much hate us with a passion.
The only reason why they haven't turned on us wholeheartedly is because the military has been buying off the local sheiks and tribesmen--those whom control the Iraqi insurgency and its various elements (including the Shiite militias)--with a rock-solid promise that they won't attack coalition forces.
So yes, all these numbers, all these reduced car bomb attacks and so forth may look pretty on paper--may point to progress--but the reality is that we have created our own ticking time-bomb.
How long will it be before even money doesn't stop the militias and the insurgency from attacking our forces once more?
What is it going to take to stop the Iraqi people from driving us out of their own country--now that Al-Qaeda is out of the picture?
One has to wonder.
Schuyler Thorpe
xxxth Street xx #X001
Everett, WA 98204
(XXX)-XXX-XXXX
Oh, let's not chalk it up to "progress" as the military continues to paint it--making us all believe that this surge has somehow--magically--transformed Iraq into some fantasy fairy tale straight out of a Walt Disney movie studio.
We all should know by now that the military has failed in its objective to transform Iraq into some kind of plutocratic democracy full of laughing and cheerful Iraqis.
In many respects, the military hasn't succeeded at all in many of its operations. It still hasn't achieved a full measure of peace and the Iraqi people still very much hate us with a passion.
The only reason why they haven't turned on us wholeheartedly is because the military has been buying off the local sheiks and tribesmen--those whom control the Iraqi insurgency and its various elements (including the Shiite militias)--with a rock-solid promise that they won't attack coalition forces.
So yes, all these numbers, all these reduced car bomb attacks and so forth may look pretty on paper--may point to progress--but the reality is that we have created our own ticking time-bomb.
How long will it be before even money doesn't stop the militias and the insurgency from attacking our forces once more?
What is it going to take to stop the Iraqi people from driving us out of their own country--now that Al-Qaeda is out of the picture?
One has to wonder.
Schuyler Thorpe
xxxth Street xx #X001
Everett, WA 98204
(XXX)-XXX-XXXX
posted by Schuyler Thorpe | 4:13 PM
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