Comments on: Sadr admits failure in Iraq

By: Math_Mage

Math_Mage — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:39:35 +0000

Oooops, that’d be a corollary to COIN rule #1. Whatev.

By: OldEnglish

OldEnglish — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:39:58 +0000

Reid and Pelosi must continue to deny success in Iraq. They have no choice. That is their cross.

By: Math_Mage

Math_Mage — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:08:45 +0000

Petraeus should have been the Time’s 2007 person of the year, instead it was given to that back stabbing, back slider into communism Putin!

Liberty or Death on March 20, 2008 at 5:02 PM

Nitpick – Putin didn’t backslide into or from anything. He was a Communist during the Cold War (the head of the KGB, in case anyone forgot), he was a Communist after the Cold War ended, and he’s a Communist now.

Anyway, if Sadr’s going to put up and shut up, good for him – he has teh self-prezrvashun skilz. COIN rule #1: Always leave room for your enemy to become your friend. It means you have one less person to kill.

However, the corollary to COIN rule #2 is that your enemy can’t continue to pursue the same agenda after he becomes your friend. So if Sadr continues towards trying to establish an Islamic caliphate in Iraq, he may yet find himself with a case of lead poisoning. Bullets in the head tend to do that.

By: Johan Klaus

Johan Klaus — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:58:03 +0000

Predator, los!

By: Alden Pyle

Alden Pyle — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:36:38 +0000

I don’t want to rain on any parades, but when we do leave, be it 6 months 6 years or 60 years, these bastards or new ones just like them will go at each other like a herd of spider monkeys on meth.

By: Unclemeat

Unclemeat — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:13:01 +0000

Mookie Packs It In…

When Moqtada al-Sadr extended his cease-fire in Iraq last month, many wondered what he had in mind. Did he intend to bide his time, purge his movement of dissenters, or simply withdraw from public life to study Islam in Iran? Almost two weeks ago, Sad…

By: sanantonian

sanantonian — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 02:55:15 +0000

General Sanchez may have had his faults, but he was correct about one thing: He said al-Sadr needed either to be killed or captured.

Unfortunately, neither Rumsfeld nor Gates got it.

By: Hog Wild

Hog Wild — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:47:10 +0000

Nice analysis Ed, I can’t think of anything to add.

By: Bicyea

Bicyea — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:37:24 +0000

Who airbrushed the zits off Moqi’s face?

By: stvdog

stvdog — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:27:59 +0000

I would like to see McCain spread this wonderful news, & that is exactly what it is. Just a couple of years ago, I couldn’t believe that we were allowing “mookie” to spread his bile. Now, he’s quit.

All of America should know this & celebrate it. McCain could really look Presidential if he told this story to the American people. But, will he?!?

By: knivek

knivek — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:04:41 +0000

Wonder what page this will make in the NYT? Not in the first 10, if it gets in at all.

cs89 on March 20, 2008 at 5:59 PM

When I saw the headline I was thinking “WHY is this not on the front page of every newspaper in the country?”

By: cs89

cs89 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:59:36 +0000

Wonder what page this will make in the NYT? Not in the first 10, if it gets in at all.

By: CliffHanger

CliffHanger — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:42:53 +0000

Well, at least Harry Reid now has company…

By: jimmer

jimmer — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:35:10 +0000

this is huge news that should be plastered to whatever walls are available.
people need to know this.

By: beefytee

beefytee — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:15:40 +0000

remember the dude who couldn’t shoot and burned his hand on the barrel of the gun?

By: PattyJ

PattyJ — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:08:43 +0000

I don’t think you can discount his stupidity, either. The ITM guys commented on his borderline IQ as he was rising–he had a pretty low reputation before Iran picked him as the head bad guy.

By: THE CHOSEN ONE

THE CHOSEN ONE — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:06:12 +0000

I never understood his beef. We liberated his people and allowed his henchmen to pull the lever of Sadaam’s lynching while shouting Muqtada Muqtada Muqtada!!! He got justice for his pops, but was that good enough, nooooooo. He had to pop off at the mouth about the new islamic sharia state he was going to create while fighting us with a rag tag militia.

By: Liberty or Death

Liberty or Death — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:02:21 +0000

I know they usually give it to the president-elect in election years, but Petraeus MUST be Time`s 2008 “Person of the Year.”

ThePrez on March 20, 2008 at 3:07 PM

Petraeus should have been the Time’s 2007 person of the year, instead it was given to that back stabbing, back slider into communism Putin!

By: CP

CP — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:55:56 +0000

Maybe Barack can bring him some HOPE.

By: BohicaTwentyTwo

BohicaTwentyTwo — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:40:44 +0000

LtE126 on March 20, 2008 at 4:11 PM

Well that’s not good COIN warfare. You only need to kill the ones who will not stop fighting.

By: Seven Percent Solution

Seven Percent Solution — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:25:27 +0000

Anyone want to playback Harry Reid’s comments about the war is lost?

Anybody?

Nah, ………. neither do I.

I think I’ll re-read ““an extraordinary leader and a wonderful advocate of our military.” “

By: beefytee

beefytee — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:15:23 +0000

Good. Now kill him.

LtE126 on March 20, 2008 at 4:11 PM

how Christian of you.

full disclosure, I am not a Christian.

By: Jim-Rose

Jim-Rose — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:12:15 +0000

It’s amazing. Sadr admits defeat, Osama barely mentions Iraq in his latest audio tape, yet in this country Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid remained unmoved and say we have lost.

By: LtE126

LtE126 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:11:02 +0000

Good. Now kill him.

By: tommylotto

tommylotto — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:05:28 +0000

It still would be nice to see him killed (in a lawful military operation where American soldiers or marines are forced to return fire strictly according to the applicable rule of engagement). But then dead would still be dead.