Someone please tell Randy Andy to take a look at how the Brit-run areas of Iraq differ from the American-protected ones.
Let’s see..
Basra.. Brits let Shiite gangsters run amuck, still a hole, while they scurry away with tails between legs.
US-protected areas...Locals helping our forces take down bad guys, less violence, power and services approaching or exceeding pre-war levels.
Which sounds better to you, Andy??
I’m afraid Andy is right that we made a lot of mistakes immediately following Saddam’s ouster. It wasn’t until the last year or so that we really started making serious headway. We’d have been better served to employ the Petraeus strategy from the day we rolled into Baghdad.
“Basra.. Brits let Shiite gangsters run amuck, still a hole, while they scurry away with tails between legs.”
Well, let’s be candid here: The British troops are good troops, and do not “scurry away with tails between legs.” Their cowardly civilian leadership in London call the shots, and the troops do what good troops always do: They follow orders.