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To: steel_resolve
The Iraqis took it upon themselves to do what the British (supposedly the second most capable military in the world) refused to.

It only bears repeating if you're an ignorant flid.

Read up Michael Yon's dispatches from his time with 4 Rifles. Read up on Operation Arezzo. The Iraqis in Basra wouldn't be fighting today without the British MiTTs and embeds, and five years of mentoring and combined ops. Or do you think the Iraqi army just worked it all out for themselves?

Same MO in Afghanistan. Afghan artillery fighting alongside NATO forces in combined ops. How did that happen? Was it magic? Or was it the result of scrupulously careful formation by British forces?

The British have been training local forces to fight for themselves as far back as the Chindits. It's their country remember.

12 posted on 04/14/2008 11:24:19 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: agere_contra

The ‘their’ in ‘It’s their country’ means ‘The locals who make up the bulk of British-trained local forces’.

Woeful grammar confusion, sorry.


13 posted on 04/14/2008 11:27:36 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: agere_contra

I sometimes wonder what exactly it would take for the Brits and their homers to realize that their softly softly approach in Basra was a mistake. According to your post, apprarently nothing.


16 posted on 04/14/2008 11:32:21 AM PDT by steel_resolve (I stand with the Tibetans.)
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To: agere_contra

Yet another cheer leader for the British failure in Iraq. They were routinely humiliated in Basra and on the waters of the gulf by the Iranians and their allies.

Germany had the Italians, and we have the British.


25 posted on 04/14/2008 2:57:55 PM PDT by Axlrose
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