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To: LindyBill who wrote (88649)11/29/2004 7:07:43 PM
From: frankw1900  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793915
 
It's endemic in Arab Culture. The officers give orders, the EM carry them out. No NCO's. That's why they lose wars.

I know that. That's why I found it interesting. Are not US folk involved in training the new Iraq army? I'll look into it a bit more.



To: LindyBill who wrote (88649)11/29/2004 9:25:00 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793915
 
It's endemic in Arab Culture. The officers give orders, the EM carry them out. No NCO's. That's why they lose wars.


Not only that, think what it must be like to survive under Saddam. A training in passivity and working only from fear, at the point of the gun.


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