 kmcolo says: "The U.S. military does not have a tradition of abandoning its own soldiers to foreign militias" Great clip. Every single word. WTF is going on in this country. Bush gets all heated about a Kerry comment but says nothing about leaving a soldier behind because the Iraqi leader told him to. I don't understand why this story isn't getting more attention. Holy crap. I had no idea. I do not see this as something strange at all. I mean at what point do you expect a government to care about one (even a group) of individuals if that government has some goal set and is on it's way there. The bigger that government is the more people can be "written-off" without much trouble if they are standing in governments way of doing something. It has been like this ever since organized governing was established and communities started getting large enough. Do we have good grounds to assume that beseiging Sadr city was the best way to free the American soldier in the first place? There have been huge concerns raised about the hardships imposed on Palestinian civilians by Israeli checkpoints, and both the New York Times and the Washington Post suggest that residents of Sadr City were facing difficulties due to the US checkpoints. Moreover, it is not obvious to me that these checkpoints really substantially increase our chances of recovering our soldier. I don't really know what the US can do, either to get back its soldier or to stop the violence in Iraq. But I do think we need to get the hell out, now. I see no justification for making US ... The abandoned American soldier's name has been released now: 41-year-old reservist, Ahmed Qusai al-Taayie. Its simple - goes something like this: PM Maliki is beholden to the most aggressive Shiite cleric & Mahdi's Militia to fight an insurgency coming from the Sunnis. At this point in Iraq's political evolution, US military is not as effective so they have become somewhat bystanders. The Iraqi soldier-interpreter broke US military rules when he got married to an Iraqi citizen in Baghdad. Those who captured him are interested in either ransom money or intelligence. Either way, the probability of his remaining alive is very slim. |
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