Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sam Citron who wrote (102990)	6/26/2003 3:06:09 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

<Pakistani troops will certainly be a bit more sensitive to Iraqi religious and cultural taboos than British or American soldiers or Halliburton security guards.> Yes. But why does knowing English make them logical candidates? Wouldn't knowing the language of the people they are supposed to be pacifying (err, policing), be more usefull? If, in fact, Iraqis saw our occupation as a liberation, then it shouldn't take any time at all, to find Iraqis willing to police and keep the peace. We only killed a small fraction of the Iraqi police and army personnel (0-5% is the range I've read). Many units survived the war totally intact, or suffered zero casualties, as the soldiers just went home before being engaged in any combat. Yet, after the conventional war has ended, and as the unconventional war in Iraq starts, we can't find any significant number of Iraqis willing to act as our proxies. Seems to me, this shows the Iraqis don't see us as liberators. And I don't see how time is going to fix this problem.