Iraq's New Dawn
Michael Yon: Iraq's New Dawn - Victory Across the Board.
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Baghdad bomb attacks kill 19 - Yahoo! News UK
Perhaps it's just me but the two stories don't really tally............:( |
Another "False Dawn" one would imagine.
Great if believable, just not believable that's all :bored: |
Read Fiasco by Thomas E. Ricks. Its scary how we got where we are!!
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Literally just started reading it - it seems to be like watching a car crash - you know you shouldn't but you just can't help yourself.
And if this is victory across the board, I'd hate to see what a defeat looks like! |
For those not familiar with 'The New York Post', (the news(!)paper that featured the 'new dawn' article, it's a Rupert tabloid rag, a cross between Fox television news and 'The Sun', (but with a considerably lower standard of page 3 girl).
I too can highly recommend 'Fiasco'. Slow motion train wreck is a very good description of the events of those first few years of GW2. I can remember saying at the time: "It's like Vietnam all over again: I bet the poor bastards incountry with mud on their boots are telling the idiots running this disaster what needs to be done, and just like Vietnam, they're being ignored by people who've never worn a uniform." (For Vietnam's version of 'Fiasco', see 'The (or was 'A'?) Bright and Shining Lie'.) |
You are a smart guy ORAC , but you were kidding us, right ??
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The country is past the tipping point, headed in the right direction.
Many things could have and should have been done differently, that doesn't diminish the gallantry and sacrifices of many. The finish line isn't in sight quite yet, but the direction to it is. |
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/25/books/25kaku.html
Love the quote an end-of-tour report by a colonel assigned to the Coalition Provisional Authority memorably summarized his office’s work as “pasting feathers together, hoping for a duck.” |
You are a smart guy ORAC , but you were kidding us, right ?? Nothwithstanding the occasional atrocity still taking place, if he says that the Iraqi forces are now up and running well and that the war, as such, is over, I am inclined to believe him as an informed and impartial source. |
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