26% have had a family member killled...and yet they haven't given up.
3,000+ american dead is an absurdly low number.
The government can last with support..not simply hot air.....its getting better at fulfilling its role. Iraqis are more and more taking the lead in finding and removing Terrorists types in their nation. Given time it will be able to handle the vast majority of needs.
Democratization via war works fine..unless those implementing the Democracy do not have the willpower to last a rational amount of time..the "microwave generation" has problems with giving things time.
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the only real hope here is that more Sunni oil fields will be discovered soon, and so their complaint about oil revenues dies down.
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Has already occured.
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This will solve more problems than 100,000 extra american troops, and will have little to do with them anyway.
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Not in the short term.
The crying and whining and OMG we can't nonsense about Iraq is doing absolutely nothing but proving Osama core message correct.
Kick them.. bleed them.. wait them out... they will break and run.
OH and I do deny there is a Civil War occuring mainly becasue the entire CIVL WAR routine started 2 years ago and it was and remains the drumbeat of the crowd who wants to lose. Its an excuse...a cover story if you will.
That Iraqis don't agree with them either discredits it even further.
..and as Ted aptly displayed those most eager to call it a Civil War simply cannot and will not say what their motivation for doing so is. They skip around either dodge or say well a ducks a duck..but eveyrone knows (*)(*)(*)(*) well that not their reason.
Isn't Afghanistan a Civil War as well by ths criteria(whatever the crietria happens to be at any given moment)..why yes it is..note that becasue thats the next "unwinnable" once they figure out a way to say 9/11 no longer matters.