Is there anyone out there other than the Warflogging WarBloggers who did not see the sectarian violence coming that is now engulfing Iraq?
"They killed him just because he was a Sunni," one young man at the morgue said of his 32-year-old neighbor, whose body he was retrieving.
I wonder how the Candy-and-Flowers Neocons are viewing their little adventure now.
Safely I imagine, from the Ivy-Covered walls of their "Think Tank" offices, where they are probably having a meeting this morning to dream up their next outrage against humanity. Someone send Mssrs Perle, Feith, Wolfowitz et al each an automatic weapon, a days supply of ammo and a ticket to Baghdad. They're on their own for body armor.
We hear the candy and flowers are there for the taking, for any Neocons brave enough to spend the night outside the Green Zone.
posted by Jo Fish on 02.28.06 at 09:06 AM
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A war against an insurgency is one that the US Army can attempt to fight and conceivably delegate to homegrown security forces, but a war between militias will mark a watershed in the conflict. It will render US forces impotent -- unless, that is, they unambiguously take sides. The suggestion that they should do so is increasingly being voiced, though given the inevitable boost in US casualties that would ensue, it hardly seems like a credible option.
So far, the Lebanonization of the war is incomplete in as much as while Shia and Kurdish militias/government forces are arrayed on one side, they have thus far only been opposed by a loose mix of Sunni insurgents with diverse affiliations. Yet the required conditions for full-blown civil war now appear to be coalescing. (more...)
