The notion that small groups of Americans are going to "embed" in Baghdad neighborhoods and "protect them" from the "bad guys"....is just nuts!
Has anyone noticed this...?
Americans in Baghdad have to stay bunched up for their own safety...and they have to be ready to exit quickly if trouble starts...or be willing to call in air support which likely kills many civilians...mostly women and children... And who complains when Americans kill women and children...the Iraqi politicians...!
The only benefit from a "surge option" is that the massive deaths of civilians that it would cause could, perhaps, motivate the Iraqi Green Zone political class to call for an immediate withdrawal of all American troops...!
Again not the "planned for" result...!
LEAVING SMALL UNITS OF AMERICANS "EMBEDED" WITH IRAQI MILITIAS POSING AS REGULAR ARMY OR POLICE...(MOST OF WHOM ARE "IN IT" JUST FOR THE OUTRAGEOUSLY HIGH WAGES THE AMERICANS ARE PAYING)...IS A SUICIDE MISSION!!
AMERICAN DEATHS DURING A SURGE IN BAGHDAD COULD MOUNT TO HUNDREDS PER WEEK... UNLESS OF COURSE, YOU ASSUME THAT IT'S ALL A "FAKE SURGE" AND THE AMERICANS WILL BE DOING "PEEK-A-BO MISSIONS" IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS...AND EXITING ASAP WHILE WATCHING THEIR BACKS...
THE SURGE OPTION IS REALLY JUST A LAST DITCH EFFORT ON THE PART OF DUBYA AND CO TO AVOID THE INEVITABLE DEFEAT...AND THEIR EVENTUAL TRAIL FOR WAR CRIMES AT SOME LATER DATE...
THE ONLY WAY A BUSH "SURGE" WOULD "SUCCEED" IS IF IT FAILED SO MISERABLY THAT THE "GROWNUPS" IN IRAQ FINALLY TAKE CHARGE AND KICK THE US OUT OF THE COUNTRY IMMEDIATELY...
BUT THE MASSIVE DEATHS THAT COULD COME FROM THE SURGE OPTION ARE A HIGH PRICE TO PAY FOR THE ON-GOING IGNORANCE AND INCOMPETENCE IN THE WHITE HOUSE....
