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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (187914)6/1/2006 12:28:22 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Sunni Arabs in Ramadi daily experience chaos that belies official optimism - they are caught in a pincer between the Shi'ite/Kurdish armed forces, the insurgents who demand absolute fealty, and US military might....It is difficult not to argue that in such places as Ramadi, if not in all of Iraq, it is the US presence at the locus of the violence

Haven't they just contradicted their own argument in the space of three paragraphs? Either the insurgents are duking it out with the Shi'ite/Kurdish armed forces, or the US is the locus of the violence, but it can't be both, unless the claim is that the Shi'a and Kurds would be able to settle amically with the Sunni insurgents if only those dratted US forces were gone. This claim is absurd on its face, considering the nature of the parties involved.

BTW, I don't think an insurgency that has to get cooperation by assasinating the leaders of that group of people which should be its base of support, can really be called a popular insurgency.
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