holy freeholy, señor bruce! On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> > Geographers wade into the politics of war armed with those damned > facts again....... > > The conventional story is that The Surge solved the violence in Iraq > in the two main places it was occurring: Anbar province in the west, > and the sectarian violence in Baghdad itself. > > Well, it's been shown that the decrease in violence in Anbar was due > to tactics initiated before the surge, namely paying off the local > tribal leaders and arming them to fight Al-Quaeda in Iraq, the Anbar > Awakening Council. > > <http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/ > 2007_08/011937.php> > > Weeeellllll...it looks like the reason that The Surge worked in > Baghdad was.... > > ...wait for it > > ...the Shiite militias ran out of Sunnis to kill or drive away. This > would account for why Al-Sadr was so willing to have his militia stand > down...they'd won. > > <http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080919074830.htm> > > "Night light in neighborhoods populated primarily by embattled Sunni > residents declined dramatically just before the February 2007 surge > and never returned, suggesting that ethnic cleansing by rival Shiites > may have been largely responsible for the decrease in violence for > which the U.S. military has claimed credit, the team reports in a new > study based on publicly available satellite imagery. > > 'Essentially, our interpretation is that violence has declined in > Baghdad because of intercommunal violence that reached a climax as the > surge was beginning,' said lead author John Agnew, a UCLA professor of > geography and authority on ethnic conflict. 'By the launch of the > surge, many of the targets of conflict had either been killed or fled > the country, and they turned off the lights when they left.'" > > <http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080919074830.htm> > > Paper cited is: > > Agnew et al. Baghdad nights: evaluating the US military 'surge' using > nighttime light signatures. Environment and Planning A, 2008; 40 (10): > 2285 DOI: 10.1068/a41200 > > <http://www.envplan.com/abstract.cgi?id=a41200> the link works for non college grads... can i post this elsewhere, and what attrib, if any do you desire... should be a good carpet bomb for john 'the surge is working' mclaim.. > > The abstract and full article pdf is there. > > I don't know if I can get this because it's publicly available, or if > it's because I'm getting it through a University IP address (which is > the case for a lot of journals). I have the full PDF, so if you can't > get it and want it, let me know... > > -- > Bruce Johnson > > "No matter where you go, there you are", B. Banzai > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/StrataList-OT?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
