Here’s a tidbit from Blogblah!!! on August 10, 2006:
In Iraq, authorities have a new security plan. Turns out the “plan” is a re-run of a failure from last year: taking on Mahdi al-Sadr’s Shiite militias, this time in Baghdad instead of in smaller southern towns. Is there any miscalculation or mistake that this administration hasn’t made in Iraq?
Personally, I’m thinking about putting together a web contest to decide who is more incompetent: Condi Rice or Don Rumsfeld. Dead heat at this point, if you ask me.
And this surge is different from “Stay the course” in just exactly what way?
Let’s see if I’ve got this straight. Sadr kicked our ass from one side of the border to the other in a series of small town fights south of Baghdad and that helped him become big stuff in Baghdad itself. Then, we took it to him in the streets of the city and now there’s civil war and he’s pulling the strings on Maliki because he’s got the largest bloc of votes in the Parliament.
Why am I having visions of Hitler in his bunker in Berlin, ordering about non-existent divisions of Panzer tanks?
Has anyone said the word “Stalingrad” to “W”? How about “Dienbienphu” or “Hue”?
If you think American prestige abroad is as low as it can get, just wait until the television cameras catch sight of long lines of civilian refugees headed for Syria and Jordan and Kuwait, panicking at the airport and at train and bus stations. Will these guys be satisfied when we’ve sacked the city, left it a hulking ruin? Will we assault neighborhoods with tanks and artillary and jets and helicopters?
Just exactly how do they plan to stop Iranian and Syrian and other “foreign fighters” from getting involved? Will they “spread the chaos outward” to full scale military confrontation with Iran?
Tell me somethin’, punkin. Tell me of any knowledge you have of any good experience any nation has had at attempting what President Bush proposes? Know of any assaults on milita/irregular forces imbedded in a city of a million plus residents that actually worked?
We are so fucked.
Now, let me drone on some more about how incompetent these bastards also are in Afghanistan, where the Taliban and Al Qaeda has been welcomed into the arms of their Pashtun breathren in Waziristan north to Khyber.
The government of Pakistan will not go in there and I don’t blame them. Some 50,000 British troops weren’t able to pacify that country back when the island nation knew something about colonizing brown skinned countries. Some of the British forts are now Mahdrassas for the teaching of new Islamic radicals.
The opium crop is bigger than ever and we’ve managed to piss off Iran and have no support along that border. As a result, the Taliban has spread from the south to the west and Kabul, as has happened with 5 previous conquering empires, is becoming increasingly isolated and unsafe.
Of course Iraq is sending hundreds of suicide bombers to the training camps of the terrorists, who are increasingly rich, sophisticated and dispersed into impenetrable cells.
We are so fucked.
From the mideast to the Indian subcontinent to the far East: North Korea has the fucking bomb and we can’t do a thing about it even when they test missles.
We are so fucked.
Did anyone else notice that while we’re planning a surge, the British think they will bring some of the boys back home?
When Bush’s poodle has had enough, goodness!