<we won, big time>
Then why is the U.S. Army withdrawing from all the Iraqi cities, while the enemy is still fighting us, still setting off bombs and firing RPGs, still killing our soldiers? It would be just as accurate to say that the Marines "won, big time" in Beirut. After their barracks got car-bombed, the Marines in Beirut "re-deployed" back to the U.S., just like our soldiers in Iraq are now "re-deploying" out of the urban areas. "Re-deployed" is the modern euphemism for "left in defeat, after they killed more of us than we (belatedly) decided that ground was worth."
The U.S. K.I.A. is dropping, because the U.S. is retreating from the field of battle. Now, the Iraqi patriots are concentrating their fire on the Quislings we've left behind. They are killing U.S.-trained policemen, at a rate of about 100/week. By the time we finish "re-deploying" back to New Jersey, our Quislings will be all dead, dispersed, or have re-joined the Badr Brigade. Then, the various Iraqi political groups (all organized along ethnic or religious lines), who have been busily raising militias, can fight it out. 12 months from now, Iraq will either be united by a Shiite cleric (Sistani=best case; Al-Sadr=worst case), or be a Failed State (like Afghanistan, with the ground held by a patchwork of warlord mini-states). That will be the end result of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Does this meet your definition of "victory, big-time"? |
