I figure it takes 6 months to train U.S. soldiers for battle. Yet we have had 2 years to get the Iraqis trained to protect their country and it hasn't happened. Does the House mention this particular problem, nope. It is critical to the success in Iraq.
2. Looks to me like Iraqis know how to fight already.
Edited on Fri Nov-18-05 10:51 PM by patrice
The Insurgency seems to demonstrate that Iraqis already know how to fight.
Maybe part of their incompetence as soldiers for the "new" Iraq is due to the fact that they can't commit to a regime that may not survive. How are they to kill or be killed for a government that may not work out.
Recent documentaries have shown that the Iraqi police and military are pretty much a tongue in cheek situation. Our troops don't trust them and indicated that they appeared to work against our troops if given a chance. They don't respect what we are doing, it's like they are patronizing us while they shoot us in the back.
Guess that's was my point. We are not training them.
...the vastly different conceptions of the 'country' a putative Iraqi soldier would be defending -- a nascent Kurdistan? A Sunni rump state? An Iran-friendly Shi'a state? A secular, modernist democracy?
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