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Originally Posted by SenaxFlatulus";p="
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Sunnis also say they feel safer if Americans accompany Iraqis. "The Americans will not let the Iraqi forces kill us," one Ghazaliya resident put it bluntly.
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[color=blue]I'm betting this isn't one of the Iraqis you so often quote as wanting Americans out of Iraq. |
Many Sunnis don't want us to leave Iraq. They know than when we leave the Shi'ite majority will begin a large-scale blood bath. We have been training the Shi'ites in the police and militias. It's been near impossible to recruit Sunni into the nascent "government's" enforcement arms.
The Sunnis are divided among themselves. The Shi'ite community is divided within itself. Even the Kurds are split.
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You keep saying civil war, yet I don't even see that term used in the article you link.
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The term "civil war' is politically incorrect and few in the media have the courage to use it. It is used openly in Iraq.
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...if you consider that most arab males are succeptible to revenge if it's within their power.
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I doubt that Arabs are any more prone to revenge than non-Arabs.
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Interestingly too, they don't seem to be attacking American forces much anymore.
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That's because the strategic trend in the last few months is to withdraw troops into the super-bases under construction throughout our new colony. GIs no longer present many targets of opportunity. Our air power has been ratcheted up, however. Perhaps you've noticed an increase in casualty reporting in this respect?
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Another conspicuous absence of mention is foreign involvement from al Qaeda.
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I don't think that Al Qauda's presence in Iraq was all that great in the first place and now that the civil war is underway, Al Qaeda is becoming irrelevant to the Iraqi struggle for self-definition.
