Do quotes like this scare you?
“You can’t really repair anything that is broken until you establish security,” said Lt. Col. Dan Barnett, commander of the First Squadron, Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment. “A wall that isolates those who would continue to attack the Iraqi Army and coalition forces can create security conditions that they can go in and rebuild.”
I guess coming from a military person it’s the type of thing you’d expect. But reading this I can’t help but think that putting up a wall and making the Iraqi’s safer makes them any more free.
Just read Derek Shearer at HuffPo saying that we can’t have freedom without economic security.
We will never get anywhere in Iraq. We need to start looking out for Americans. argggggggg.
One of the missed stories of the debate was Obama’s shocking assertion that the President is in charge of military policy – not the generals.
Just shows that he’s an amateur.
Interesting article; I think the Brits tried this in Ulster, but that was to keep the Catholics and the Protestants out of each others’ neighborhoods and thereby keep sectarian violence to a minimum.
I didn’t see the debate, but if Obama implied that GWB is micromanaging the war like LBJ did in Vietnam, he’s delusional. He’d be better off pointing out that Bill Clinton wouldn’t let our troops in Somalia have armored vehicles because it would send the wrong message.
Actually he ought to be pointing out that John McCain was advocating a cut and run policy in Somalia. Or maybe he should be pointing out how Rumsfeld ignored sending uparmored vehicles (you remember our guys having to uparmor their own vehicles for a few years) because he thought it would all be over by Christmas 2002?
The problem with this physical segregation is the you make the task of governing that much harder. Why should people come together for some larger goal when their own personal cantonment becomes their world?
While all this is going on we have lost 25 troops since the 1st of April 29 if you count the 4 we lost yesterday in Afgan.Let this be a warning call to all Obama and Clinton supporters we better get our act together after we decide which one will represent us in November. Failure to do so will not only saddle us with the Senile Old Man but just might march us into Iran.
Their will be no joy for either of us to say if you picked my guy we would have won.