[Rhodes22-list] Question, Political, war in Iraq.

[TN Rhodey]

I agree military tactics are a waste here. I don't have a solution to offer
and it is a shame we created this mess. The history of the region indicated
this was a fool hardy endeavor from the get go. It seems to me the region is
now more unstable. We can't close our own borders so I don't see how we can
expect our military to shut down Iraq. The arms will keep coming. I also
don't see how we can make Sunnis, Shites, and Kurds happy.

Wally



On 6/26/07, john Belanger <jhnblngr at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> you all know that the solution is political and that concentrating on
> military tactics and efforts is not furthering the political goal. also
> local control, underlined, isn't a military function either. try holding the
> politicians feet to the fire. for instance those benchmarks recently in the
> news. oil revenue sharing, etc. make them decrees now. no one is against
> them except the iragi politicians. put the iraqi people firmly on our side
> by guaranteeing civil rights. take the criminals off the street and stop the
> arms flow. in our civil war, if you remember your history, we had to
> neutralize england france and other nations from aiding the south. the only
> winner here should be iraq.
>
> Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:  Rummy,
>
> For the most recent events start here: http://www.michaelyon-online.com/
>
> Start with "Drilling for Justice" and work backward in time. Yon is
> probably
> the best freelance embed in the theater and he's pretty unbiased. He
> covers
> both the successes and failures. Most of the MSM use stringers and never
> leave the Green Zone. A lot of the MSM embeds have proven to be so hostile
> to the effort that units won't allow them anymore. Yon is objective.
>
> Here is another good source: billroggio.com
>
> You can sort through hundreds of milblogs but you only get piecemeal
> insight
> of a whatever small part of the theater that particular blogger is
> experiencing. I follow a couple of blogs daily, powerlineblog.com and
> instapundit.com that link to reports, good and bad, as they become
> available. I still read newspapers daily but find their reporting so
> distorted as to be useless for actually knowing what is happening. Every
> time there is an aviation accident I'm appalled at the inaccurate and
> sophomoric news coverage. This war is no different.
>
> Brad
>
> On 6/26/07, R22RumRunner at aol.com wrote:
> >
> > Now as to Iraq, there are lots and lots of good things happening out
> > that are not being reported. The MSM ignoring them is the real denial.
> >
> > Brad,
> >
> > What good things do you think are happening in Iraq?
> >
> > Rummy
> >
> >
> >
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