[river rat]

"When the hard core insurgents know that other Iraqis will kill them no matter where they are, they tend to surrender.

An therein lies the true test of the theory....

WILL the Iraqi police/military fight to the death --- the militant Islamists -- or will they see Islam as their common link to the Islamists, and a stronger link than to the new Iraqi "democracy"??

At present, there is more evidence that the New Iraqi "Police/Miliary", will shrink from the task......without MASSIVE support from Coalition forces..

Semper Fi

[Tallguy]

WILL the Iraqi police/military fight to the death --- the militant Islamists -- or will they see Islam as their common link to the Islamists, and a stronger link than to the new Iraqi "democracy"??

THAT is the $64,000 question. We may be able to exercise a certain level of control over Falluja by bullying the Iraqi gendarmes into doing our bidding. That may be sufficient for the task at hand, which is < cue the chorus > putting an "Iraqi Face" on the problem until real power transfer takes place.

[Common Tator]

Is that sort of like the Shites that tried to overthrow Saddam after Gulf War I.. and the Bathists that killed tens of thouasnds of Shites in return?

Anyone who thinks Muslims won't kill Muslims for any reason, thinks that Saddam attacking Kuwait was just a desert mirage.

Human life is cheap in the Muslim world. For much of the last 1200 years the cheapest of all lives is a fellow Muslim's life.

For a Clue visit one of the mass graves where Saddam killed tens of thousands of Muslims. Saddam ordered Muslims to kill Muslims and they did it gladly.