He posts a note from a guy inside Iraq and guess what? We are winning (if not for the francophone deafeatocratist media).
The Baghdad Security Plan is working and can achieve an endstate. It took the Brits 12 years in Maylaya. We are following their plan.
The biggest enemy we have is an over active media and spineless Host Nation government which is intimidated by the JAM and has the JAM as key constituent group.
Pretty cool right? Freedom is on the march. But if you click through and read the whole post you also read this:
The texture of the situation on the ground is too complex for limited internet access I have right now and I have a few more stops to make as I continue my quest to find the civil war.
Baghdad is a violent and dangerous place now. There are people who kill without reason. JAM kills plenty of Shia and AQIZ kills plenty of Sunni and they both kill coalition members.As a High Value Target being hunted by a platoon I rolled around with last week said over the Iraqna phone to the company commander—the killing has gotten out of control, it must end, I don’t even know why I do it anymore.
Ryan takes a complex post and boils it down to a few graphs that support his position. Well, knock me over with a feather.
Side Note: I have no idea what this means: <i>The Baghdad Security Plan is working and can achieve an endstate. It took the Brits 12 years in Maylaya. We are following their plan.</i>
I guess he is harkening all the way back to <i>the Malayan Emergency,</i> which lasted from 1948 to 1960. If so, who knew that was are model and who is playing the communists? Us? We are the ones who invaded.