I noticed that we just finished Operation Matador , and it was a resounding success (yea, right). We killed or captured 164 insurgents, with only 9 Marines killed (but please remember we don't do body counts). What is most interesting about this mission is what we are going to do with the land we have taken, we are going to withdraw from it.
That sounds like a bit of our History, where we would fight, kill, and die to take an objective, only to give it back.
It also appears that the habits of the old Iraqi administration are tainting the way the new Iraqi administration works. Lately, bunches of recently killed bodies have been found. In one recent case a couple of men survived, and claim those killed were shot by Iraqi security forces, not resistance.
A dirty war may be getting dirtier
The Independent tries to capture the scope of the disaster that Iraq is becoming. This is a great example of the obvious being overlooked by most of us.
There is no doubt that the US has failed to win the war. Much of Iraq is a bloody no man's land. The army has not been able to secure the short highway to the airport, though it is the most important road in the country, linking the US civil headquarters in the Green Zone with its military HQ at Camp Victory.
and a bit in the Whiskey Bar raises the question of how will this war be viewed in 5 years, and reminds us a big question still laying out there.
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