I have to wonder, from reading accounts of the way operations go in Iraq, what happens after this?
About 1,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops mounted a fresh assault on insurgents early Friday on the border with Syria, the U.S. military announced.
The push by Marines and sailors with Regimental Combat Team 2 of the 2nd Marine Division, in tandem with Iraqi soldiers, "began in the early morning hours aimed at rooting out terrorists, foreign fighters and disrupting terrorist support systems in and around Karabilah," according to a Marine statement.
I suspect that more than one American Marine or sailor (corpsman?) will be killed in this "offensive" (although it would be most excellent for there to be no casualties at all).
But once "Operation Spear" is over, and all the 1,000 or so troops head back to whereever they came from, who or what fills in the void and prevents the return of the "terrorists, foreign fighters and ... terrorist support systems"? Methinks that General Shinseki and others have been sacked for asking just that question. How long until the sacrifice of those troops involved in this operation and others is laid once and for all at the feet of the 1600 Crew, it's PNAC War Monger master and the utterly indefensible Pentagon Chickenhawks?
Not soon enough...
posted by Jo Fish on 06.17.05 at 01:01 PM
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I assume that all of the Navy deaths lately are corpsmen, a group we can ill afford to lose as they are in short supply. Hell, we can't afford to lose anyone, because there are no replacements.
...close enough to provide a Tonkin-type pretext to take focus off of Conyer's hearings.
Sailors and Marines on the front lines, and more to come with a 'blue to green' transition plan to cover the recruitment shortcomings.
Godspeed to ours. Get home soon and safely.
posted by: Mr.Murder on 06.19.05 at 03:20 AM [permalink]
So is this the lie that means "We are invading Syria?"
posted by: Yankee on 06.19.05 at 08:14 AM [permalink]
