Long-Term Allies In Iraqi Army?
Interesting read over at Michael Yon’s site titled “Moment of truth”…on the military comraderie and relationships being formed between our guys and the Iraqi Army that will end up being very beneficial in the long-term…here is an excerpt:
There’s only a small group of writers who honestly spend enough time in Iraq to make serious claims based on firsthand accounts. But I’ve seen the Iraqi Army with my own eyes. I’ve done many missions in 2005 and 2007, in many places in Iraq, along with the Iraqi Army: please believe me when I say that, on the whole, the Iraqi Army is remarkably better in 2007 and far more effective than it was in 2005. By 2007, the Iraqis were doing most of the fighting. And . . . this is very important . . . they see our Army and Marines as serious allies, and in many cases as friends. Please let the potential implications of that sink in.
We now have a large number of American and British officers who can pick up a phone from Washington or London and call an Iraqi officer that he knows well—an Iraqi he has fought along side of—and talk. Same with untold numbers of Sheiks and government officials, most of whom do not deserve the caricatural disdain they get most often from pundits who have never set foot in Iraq. British and American forces have a personal relationship with Iraqi leaders of many stripes. The long-term intangible implications of the betrayal of that trust through the precipitous withdrawal of our troops could be enormous, because they would be the certain first casualties of renewed violence, and selling out the Iraqis who are making an honest-go would make the Bay of Pigs sell-out seem inconsequential. The United States and Great Britain would hang their heads in shame for a century.
Alternately, in an equation in which the outcome is a stable Iraq for which they (Iraqi Police and Army officials) are stewards, the potential benefits are equally enormous. Because if Iraq were to settle down, and then a decade passes and we look back and even our most severe critics cannot deny that Iraq is a better place, a generation of Iraq’s most important leaders would have deep personal bonds with their counterparts in America and Great Britain. This could actually happen.
Read Michael’s post here.
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Tell that one to the boy-wonder Obama, or the Wicked Witch from the midwest Hilda, or the Breck girl. None of the aforementioned mental midgets is on the same wave length as Mike Yon is.
Neither is the surrender monkeys in Congress or the LLLMSM.
Fortunately, they are not the center of gravity.
The COG according to Clauswitz “is the hub of all power and movement on which everything depends.” And that COG is the American people.
The other unfortunate thing is that the US citizen on average is an impatient and isolated folk. Few of them are in the fight. So they have time to show up at political rallies and show their tits in protest.
This COG is the strategic level of conflict. The tactical and operational battles have been won. It is this strategic component that must also be won.
Even with all the Yons and Dollards out there, if the Dhimis take the POTUS in ‘08, Yon’s analogy to the Bay Of Pigs will come to fruition.
The battle is also for the US national will and haj knows this only too well.
January 9th, 2008 at 3:24 pmGood news, indeed.
January 9th, 2008 at 8:41 pm“Political reconciliation” has got to be happening..
If not the wheels will start to squealing soon…
January 9th, 2008 at 9:23 pm