And the winner is......
For the award in the category of "no shit," the winner is.....
(NYTimes) Chaos Overran Iraq Plan in ’06, Bush Team Says
Perenial nominee "water is wet" said, "there's no way I can compete with that."
Frequent attendee "is the Pope Catholic?" chimed in, "It really was their year. We're all logical sensibilities, but theirs was written all over the front pages. You'd have to be an idiot not to see that one."
(I mean, come on. Is this some great revelation that they had no idea how bad it really was? Do I really need the NYTimes to tell me that the Bush administration was still employing counterinsurgency tactics well after Iraq had become a civil war?)
(By the way, the failed counterinsurgency strategy, "clear, hold, build," is the one McCain is still touting as part of his Iraq strategy.)
Later: Reading a little deeper, the White House is really trying to pin the failure on the outgoing Gen. Casey. Trying to get a fresh start for their new plan?
(NYTimes) Chaos Overran Iraq Plan in ’06, Bush Team Says
Perenial nominee "water is wet" said, "there's no way I can compete with that."
Frequent attendee "is the Pope Catholic?" chimed in, "It really was their year. We're all logical sensibilities, but theirs was written all over the front pages. You'd have to be an idiot not to see that one."
(I mean, come on. Is this some great revelation that they had no idea how bad it really was? Do I really need the NYTimes to tell me that the Bush administration was still employing counterinsurgency tactics well after Iraq had become a civil war?)
(By the way, the failed counterinsurgency strategy, "clear, hold, build," is the one McCain is still touting as part of his Iraq strategy.)
Later: Reading a little deeper, the White House is really trying to pin the failure on the outgoing Gen. Casey. Trying to get a fresh start for their new plan?
posted by mikevotes at
10:25 PM
1 Comments:
Just a quick preemptive. Clear hold build is designed to defeat an insurgency that's aimed at you, the occupier.
All of the "build" efforts are designed to generate goodwill towards the "builder.
If the Iraqi Shia government is a party to the civil war, and wants it to continue, it has no interest in building.
Frankly, it undertakes activities that generate more hatred. That's how a civil war works.
So, while the US is is employeing a strategy to generate goodwill, the Shia are using the "clear and hold" sections to enact their civil war violence.
Counterinsurgency strategies are designed for a binary relationship, not to generate goodwill towards an actively hostile third party.
Maybe I'll write something more coherent on this tomorrow.
Mike
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