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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (244148)10/6/2007 2:18:52 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
It's clear you've never been in a foreign country where the population was supporting an insurgency. It takes less than a week to see the sullen looks and "feel" the animosity. The generals knew that. It wasn't just "brave talk," mistaken, or wishful thinking

You were in Iraq? Where? When? Read the milblogs. Or are you one of those who will believe absolutely anything of the American army, except that it has Americans in it? You think the brass could keep a lid on it, if all the troops knew it was going south? This is the internet age. You can post anonymously even if you're in the army. If you had read them, you would have heard of the spots that were hostile, and the many more that were not but were being intimidated by an insurgency that preferred head-hacking to winning hearts and minds.

More abstract bs from a worldview that knows, that just knows that all authority is the same, except for American authority, which is unique and uniquely worse.

Iraq was lost when the insurgency took hold and it will stay lost and we will leave

I have a little news flash for you from the Sunni insurgency, buddy. They've decided alliance with Al Qaeda was not such a good idea and have flipped.

Oh, that's right. You don't believe that either because American generals always lie. Ditto for any Iraqis that don't hate them.
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