Nadine, re: 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.
You've been wrong so often that you should be humbled but you continue Pollyanna-like finding "great" news to support your ever changing and untenable justifications for predicting "victory" in this disaster in Iraq. (Of course "Pollyanna-like" may not be the best phrase to describe your persistently rabid cheerleading of a policy and a conflict that has caused so much death, maiming, and anguish for millions of Americans and Iraqis.)
And there's no excuse for that. After all, it's not like you haven't been educated on what the Sunni "flip" actually means. I've posted to you at least twice on that subject and it's clearly emerging in the mainstream media. For instance:
msnbc.msn.com
"I don't think there is something called reconciliation, and there will be no reconciliation as such," said Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih, a Kurd. "To me, it is a very inaccurate term. This is a struggle about power."....
The U.S. military's latest hope for grass-roots reconciliation, the recruitment of Sunni tribesmen into the Iraqi police force, was denounced last week in stark terms by Iraq's leading coalition of Shiite lawmakers....
The U.S. effort to recruit Sunni tribesmen to join the police force and fight the insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq was strongly opposed last week by Shiite officials, who asserted that the Sunni recruits were killing innocent people under the guise of fighting insurgents.
"We demand that the American administration stop this adventure, which is rejected by all the sons of the people and its national political powers," the leading Shiite political coalition said in a statement. "Their elements are criminals who cannot be trusted or relied upon."
And try this:
msnbc.msn.com
Last summer American military commanders spent millions of dollars on "concerned local citizens" programs—essentially paying off tribal sheiks to keep their followers from planting roadside bombs. In Tikrit's Salah Ad Din province, the Army has spent more than $5 million to buy the loyalty of 26 different sheiks....
Yet "government from the bottom up" is not without risks. Critics say empowering regional strongmen is creating a warlord state in Iraq, with tribal and religious leaders operating increasingly independently—and often unconstitutionally. At best, the breakdown into local fiefdoms is not necessarily consistent with political reconciliation at the center, the strategic goal of U.S. diplomats. At worst, power struggles among local leaders—particularly in the southern Shiite heartland—could erupt into all-out civil war. "If nobody wins, you could end up with different groups in charge of different cities," says Vali Nasr, an Iraq expert at Tufts University. In a sense, it's happening already. Even as Iraqis furiously denounce the nonbinding U.S. Senate resolution that suggested dividing their country into three relatively autonomous parts, Iraq has splintered into a hundred pieces.
So, as I told you so plainly when you, and the rest of the "follow Bush blindly" crowd, started your empty headed cheering about the Sunnis "flipping," the fact that the Sunnis are playing the game the Shiites have so successfully played and are now using us as money and arms suppliers with the assertion that they're "fighting on our side against Al Queda" is simplistic to the point of abysmal stupidity.
The Sunnis are desperately trying to survive in a death struggle against a Shiite majority. They don't want a unity "democratic" government under majority (Shiite) rule and, notwithstanding all the "they've flipped" nonsense, they'll fight in an insurgency to the death rather than submit to our silly notion that an Iraqi national army can be trained up to support a democratic Iraq.
The only thing the Sunnis "flipped" is their tactics. Their goals are the same, their intractable opposition to the Iraq we envision and that the Shiites want is the same and they will kill us as it suits them. In the meantime, however, why not take the hundreds of million or billions of dollars and the arms from foolish Americans trying to buy them off...those are tools that can be used against the Shiites and, when it suits them, us.
Just think about it. Ed
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