The Surge of the Lost Brigades
Grumpy Forester covers the Washington Post article, U.S. unit says Iraqis ‘not ready to stand up’, that reports on the view of the military in Iraq about the escalation.
An American View From The Arab Street deals with the frustration of doing something dangerous that the people who are supposed to be benefiting don’t seem to want done.
Part of the deal with the oath of enlistment is that those set over you are not going to order you to do something dangerous without a good reason. Risking life and limb should be for serious purposes, not for someone’s promotion. When people no longer believe that their mission is important they make mistakes.
A point that many people miss is that this administration has done such a good job de-humanizing the “enemy,” that American forces view all Arabs as the enemy. You can’t trust people you believe to be the enemy and both the Iraqi and American forces are caught in this web of lies.
