bluesman,
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You know, you seem to think it's all so dam' easy, putting together, in only three years, the perfection and competence and problem-solving that NO society EVER has been able to achieve, let alone while beset by all that Iraq has to deal with.
You have no sense of perspective, chief, NONE. You are simply not dealing with any concept of the reality of what it is that you are demanding that the GoI live up to, and I may have to revise my opinion of your intellect. Can you get your head around this ONE CONCEPT: perfection cannot come overnight to a nation riven by factionalism, neighboring states that pose a deadly menace, a rotten infrastructure that has been robbed blind by a thug mis-rule for 35 years, AND the constant attack of half-wits that think it should've all been running like a German train schedule a year ago? DO you GET any of that?
Here's a concept: stop investing your ego, time, and intellect in FAILURE, and get on-side so you can do something semi-constructive? HUH? Think MAYBE you could try some positve mental attitude for ONCE, stop being an Internet Message Board gadfly and see if you can do just a LITTLE good for the Cause?
Or would you rather be right?
Disgusting. On a day like this, I wish you could be something better than just another loser trying as hard as you can to make ALL of us lose. Go away.
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is that right? how about this: many of the failures staring at us in the face was because of poor decision-making from washington, born from politically-motivated decisions on both sides of the aisle. yes, iraq is riven with problems a-plenty; it is too damn bad these problems were ignored. now that they are metastazing in our face, it is time to come up with creative solutions. our solution right now, as outlined by the very architect of said solution, has a 10% chance of success.
and you are criticizing me for wanting to come up with a different method of solving a difficult problem.
let me see here:
Hirsh: Rating Petraeus’s Report to the Hill - Newsweek Michael Hirsh - MSNBC.com
"NEWSWEEK has learned that a separate internal report being prepared by a Pentagon working group will “differ substantially” from Petraeus’s recommendations, according to an official who is privy to the ongoing discussions but would speak about them only on condition of anonymity. An early version of the report, which is currently being drafted and is expected to be completed by the beginning of next year, will “recommend a very rapid reduction in American forces: as much as two-thirds of the existing force very quickly, while keeping the remainder there.” The strategy will involve unwinding the still large U.S. presence in big forward operation bases and putting smaller teams in outposts. “There is interest at senior levels [of the Pentagon] in getting alternative views” to Petraeus, the official said. Among others, Centcom commander Admiral William Fallon is known to want to draw down faster than Petraeus."
i see, so is Adm. Fallon investing in failure? are the architects of this working group also investing in failure? there is something to be said for a positive mental attitude, which is why i support petraeus 110% of the way, but i wasn't aware that remarking on weaknesses of the current effort (an over-dependence, IMO, of a bunch of sectarian thugs in suits) makes me a gadfly whom weakens the cause.
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Maybe while you post up your snide, sniffy rejoinder, given the subject matter, you could take that smirky smilie off, whatcha think? I don't think we're really in the mood for that sort of a 'joke'.
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sounds good to me, chief.
"My favorite moment HAD to be the microphone debacle that so enraged Skelton that he can be heard (on other mikes that happened to be working...because they were privately-owned, not government property) swearing. Wait, that's not the punch line. The mike fiasco came immediately after one Democrat after another was pronouncing the Iraqi government incompetent, can't do anything right, total confusion, etc. etc.
Comedy GOLD, people."
you know, because we can seriously compare a microphone mistake to the incompetency and the sectarian hoodlum-ism that is the GOI.