Self Reliance
Jan 10th, 2008 at 7:47 am by Susie
Imagine how many things they’d get to figure out if we would just leave:
In the year since President Bush announced he was changing course in Iraq with a troop “surge” and a new strategy, U.S. military and diplomatic officials have begun their own quiet policy shift. After countless unsuccessful efforts to push Iraqis toward various political, economic and security goals, they have decided to let the Iraqis figure some things out themselves.
From Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker to Army privates and aid workers, officials are expressing their willingness to stand back and help Iraqis develop their own answers. “We try to come up with Iraqi solutions for Iraqi problems,” said Stephen Fakan, the leader of a provincial reconstruction team with U.S. troops in Fallujah.
…officials are expressing their willingness to stand back and help Iraqis develop their own answers.
In other words, the US plan failed, and failed badly. How many soldiers died for this?
And still everyone says the surge is working.
“Imagine how many things they’d get to figure out if we would just leave”
I’m sure the “tiny minority of extremists” would probably figure out how to manufacture car bombs and IEDs quicker, and how to slaughter everybody who doesn’t toe their Sharia line.
I’ve never been able to figure out if its “toe the line”,
or “tow the line.”