[areafiftyone]

Oh I agree. But it sickens me to see their police force cutting and running. How would you like to see your police force start laying down their weapons and running everytime there is a situation.

[boxerblues]

I live close to Cleveland, a trigger happy group. I cant imagine them running from anybody.

[boxerblues]

I do wonder though what is it that is making them run?

[SauronOfMordor]

Oh I agree. But it sickens me to see their police force cutting and running. How would you like to see your police force start laying down their weapons and running everytime there is a situation.

I would not like it. That's why, when we saw the LAPD run away like rabbits on national TV during the LA riots, my wife bought me my first firearm as a birthday present shortly thereafter

[DoughtyOne]

In their defense, these new Iraqi police forces are up against some pretty stiff odds. Most US police forces don't have to face tens of thousands of hostile former Republican Guard members in their midst, armed with military level arms.

As long as those Republican Guard members remain armed and coordinating their efforts, Iraq has no chance of calming down and becoming a successful nation as we would desire it. At least that's MO.

Even if it did level out in the short term, it would sink soon after we left, again IMO.

[DoughtyOne]

I will say that if Iraq gets it's army built, it may be able to discount what I have said here, but that is problematic in that so many of it's ranks may infact be people who do not support a stable government of the model that we desire for them.

[McGavin999]

They are in a pretty tough situation. They don't know if we are going to cut and run and then they and their families will be left to the mercy of those men. Remember in 1991 we left Iraq on it's own and 300,000 people were slaughtered.

Give them a little time, when they realize that we won't run, they'll rethink.

Besides, I just read that only 20% of them have run.