[My Dog Likes Me]

Our friends, the Saudis, are Sunnis.

That's why we'll not do anything militarily spectacular in response to this outrage in the crazed Sunni Triangle.
If we do, I'll be amazed.

Word up- if the White House spokesman doesn't say something like, "They were civilian contractors who understood the risks in rebuilding a new and free Iraq..." within 48 hrs, then I'll eat my shoes.

[iconoclast]

Our friends, the Saudis, are Sunnis.

That's why we'll not do anything militarily spectacular in response to this outrage in the crazed Sunni Triangle. If we do, I'll be amazed.

Had we been serious about extracting this jihad cancer our troops would be in Saudi Arabia, not Iraq.

We're supposed to be essentially "pulling out in May"? Seems to me we all better be looking heavenward for a miracle if we think this mess is going to be any better by then.

[hershey]

What they're saying is that in the 'new' downsized army, we have to coordinate military activities, protection, with civilian protective patrols...which is what the four dead were. Obviously they needed a bunch of marines riding shotgun. Next time, that's what will happen.