photo by Michael Totten
Along with Bill Ardolino’s series, Inside Iraqi Politics, the other excellent read is Michael Totten’s The Final Mission Part III. According to Totten, we are scheduled to hand back security control of Anbar Province over to the Iraqi government, provided all goes well and the violence continues to decline as Iraqi security forces continue to be trained. One would think that if all these insurgents and Islamic holy warriors wanted is to have American and Coalition “invaders” to be expelled from Iraq, they’d just desist with the violence, and it would automatically happen. Hugh Hewitt writes,
Michael Totten has another fascinating write-up, this one of the Marines’ effort to teach human rights to Iraqi police in Fallujah, as well as on the need for journalists and writers of all types to humanize both Iraqis and Americans.
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Also, Michael Yon: AQI Losing Habitat in Iraq at Alarming Rate
And Bill Roggio: Al Qaeda in Iraq under pressure in Balad, Anbar
Iraqi, US forces capture senior Special Groups operative in Hillah
Read the accounts, and send the links on to your friends and enemies. You’ll be doing everyone a favor.
A former fetus, the “wordsmith from nantucket” was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1968. Adopted at birth, wordsmith grew up a military brat. He achieved his B.A. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles (graduating in the top 97% of his class), where he also competed rings for the UCLA mens gymnastics team. The events of 9/11 woke him from his political slumber and malaise. Currently a personal trainer and gymnastics coach.
The wordsmith has never been to Nantucket.
You bring up a good point about desisting with the violence. Problem is that these guys are incapable of not blowing something or someone up every week or so. It’s like a drug in their Islamo-faschist blood.
Off Topic:
I will be back to read the rest in a few but this ought to make you happy!
http://mariestwocents.blogspot.com/2008/02/berkeley-revisits-vote-against-marine.html
And meanwhile, more legislation passes in Iraq.
Our own Congress could take some notes. All those changes Senator Obama talks about? Why not try and get some of that done, now? What’s stopping them from trying?