They are not going to. There is no such thing as Iraqi security, as events are proving.
There is Sunni Security, Shia Security, Kurd Security, and lots of little militias aligned with each (and lots not aligned). You have 3 warring parties that have absolutely no desire or reason to work together The only way it could work is to have an incredibly strong "nanny" keep the warring factions apart, like the Nato mission in Kosovo. On 11/14/06, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > JJ wrote: > > This is certainly going well. > > You did a great job, Rummy. > > > > This is why it's so obvious that, no matter the troops nor commitment, > we can't save Iraq unless they want to save themselves. And as long > as we're there subsidizing the Iraqis they're not going to save > themselves because that's hard dangerous work and they don't want to > do it any more than we do. > > To me the analogy is an alcoholic. You can only do so much to help > them before you cross the line on enabling. People, in general, don't > do hard work when they don't absolutely have to. > > As long as the US is subsidizing Iraqi security, there's no reason > they absolutely have too. And they can blame us for the failure. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:220613 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
