Apr 02 2007
More Iraqi Sunnis Rising Up Against Al Qaeda
The news just keeps getting better. More Sunni tribes are signing up to fight al Qaeda in Iraq, and more joint actions between local tribesman and Iraqi forces are being undertaken with clear results against al Qaeda. al Qaeda made a grave mistake when it went on its bloody killing spree of Muslims last week. It has been a recruiting boom for the pro-democracy forces in Iraq.
You could call this “terror in reverse,” ya know?
The sunnis thought they “owned” the terror machinery in Iraq. Instead? In spite of Dubya’s attempts to bring territory to the House of Saud; the perps in the war against the Iraqis are up against the ropes.
The Brits? Suffered losses. And, were a waste of time in Basra.
Ditto, George Tenet.
Ditto, Chalabi.
Ditto, the NY Times.
Ditto, Paul Bremer.
What you don’t see is how “the stick works.” Because? Now Maliki actually fears an American pull-out. And? If you think Maliki has a “luv” for the iranians, you’re missing the point of ultimate goals.
Maliki wants an iraq on some sort of road that doesn’t allow the House of Saud; or the sunnis, to get in control of too many of the state’s levers of power. The oil wealth? There’s enough to distribute.
Whom should you watch? The Kurds. Because they’ll let you know, soon enough, which of the two fighting groups won state’s powers. The Shi’a. Who are numerous. But amount to 40%. Or the sunni’s. Who are HATED by most arabs; even when they do silly pronouncements about the palestinians. And, their murderous mayhem.
You don’t see the shifts, because they happen far away. But, so far?
There’s a humongous divide. Between power structures. And, Dubya probably will sit on his hands for the next two years.
Just the same, General Patraeus knows how iraq works. (If we’d only be so lucky as to learn “how the french do it,”) … we might gain an understanding of how things went wrong for US. But even, here, the iraqis are pounding the daylights out of the terrorists. Who can’t get out of what happens when “revenge” takes hold on their heads.
Do the behaviors. Pay a price.
While in the USA? We’re divided into “special interests.”
I’m not too worried about pelosi’s “influence.”
More worried that we allowed the UN to be the cancer that grew. Taking our victory of WW2; into a global network of despots. Anti-Semites. And, other scoundrels.
The secret of why iraq is not Vietnam? In Nam the communists, here, there, and everywhere, were able to exercise control.
Bush and his shrubbery business? Can’t do much, now. Since all the steps to “halp” the sunnis came to naught. Zero. Zilch. Of course, the taxpayer still foots the bill.
And? The democraps want to control DC through their lawyers. And, through the limitations played on all the American people by the special interest groups.
We have “special interest groups.” The iraqis have the sunnis. Funded by the House of Saud. And, there’s a lot of bluffing going on around this poker table.
Is there a difference between Jimmy Carter and Dubya? YES! It’s easy to spot. Jimmy Carter stuck his hands in. While Dubya? Could care less.
Off Topic: Sam Zell has just been approved as buyer of the Tribune Company that publishes the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun and many other papers and TV and radio stations. This is going to be interesting.
I wish people had a better perspective of things. South Africa has about 6 times more murders per year than Iraq does. In the first three months of 2006 there were 18,528 murders. That is in only three months. Compare that to last month’s total of roughly 1,300 dead Iraqis.
Even figuring in that South Africa has a little less than twice the population of Iraq, the murder rate is much higher than in Iraq. I don’t hear complaints about “civil war” there. The only difference is that the people are killed one at a time rather than in bunches.
People hear these numbers out of Iraq but have no way of putting them into perspective with other third world countries.