I hate it when that happens

[jhetley]

You know, Fearless Leader is right when he says that it's a bad idea to tell the nasties exactly when the only sheriff is leaving town.  Iraq is a mess now.  It will only get worse when we pull out.

Not saying I have an answer.  Just, we broke it, we bought it.  Whether we should have been in the china shop in the first place?  That's a different question.

Enough mixed metaphors for one day.

Comments

[wcg.livejournal.com]

That is indeed a big part of the problem. There used to be Marines with a lot of experience in this sort of thing, back in the 20s and 30s of the last century. There's even a nice little book called The Small Wars Manual that was printed at Quantico which discusses the practical problems of conquering and occupying a 3rd world country. The problem these days is that very few Marines have read it, and I doubt anyone in the other services has.