An
Iraqi TV show punks people by pretending
bombs are in their cars... ? Ugh. Makes my stomach turn. But maybe
Iraqis are so sick of all this that somehow it becomes funny.
(HT
to CMcR)
Meanwhile,
the
killing of an Iraqi general barely makes today's newspaper. The Obama
Administration certainly has read the mood of the American people well on Iraq:
We don't care if the war is over, just as long as you don't tell us about it.
Five gunmen attacked an American military convoy south of Baghdad. The troops
were not "combat troops," so they used return fire to advise the attackers to
die.
For
those still keeping score, it has been six months since the Iraqi election. Ali
al-Turaihi, an Iraqi government employee, ‘splains
to Reuters that, "The crisis ... will continue for a long time because the
decisions are not in the hands of Iraqi politicians. The delay in government
formation is a struggle of regional countries."
Yeah, the only fissiles in Iraq were the ethnic groups. And just like Yugoslavia, when the dictator dies, the national fission explosion occurs. In this case, the US ousted Hussein, triggering the whole messy chain reaction. In hindsight, we should have known better from the breakup of the USSR and Yugoslavia what would occur. The real victims here are the minority ethnic groups, not just Sunnis, who have lost their country, homes, livelihoods, and for some, their lives. Mandaeans, Jews, Christians, and other minority ethnic groups had to flee, not just the Sunnis. I wonder if someone in the Pentagon or State Dept. pointed this out, that Iraq could be the Middle Eastern equivalent of Yugoslavia and said report got buried.
I did like the middle paragraph about non-combat troops advising attackers to die. Thanks for the chuckle, Tom!
Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military for the Washington Post from 2000 through 2008.
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