Seems like those who are hoping to turn Iraq into Veitnam may be disappointed afterall.
Insrugents have seen their big days and now the eclipse is coming and it is coming fast. We have had similar insurgency in Karachi. Once the Pak military got on the ground, MQM and non-MQM insurgents had no chance. (period). It is impossible to run insurgencies in flat terrain without help from a super power. The result was that our Mr. Altaf is now a British citizen.
In fact Pak army should have given hand to coalition troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Both the wars would be over by now, and then Pak army (with the help of US forces) could focus on Somalia, Sudan and other hot spots around the world.
…Most stores were closed in Azamiyah and mostly Sunni Dora, two strongholds of the insurgency. Entire streets in Dora, southern Baghdad, were deserted, including al-Moalemeem road, dubbed “Death Road” by residents because of the frequent clashes there between Sunni insurgents and security forces and sectarian killings. In Baghdad’s central and mainly Shiite Karradah district, beset by a series of car bombs in the past week, Iraqi army troops patrolled on foot. Some were deployed at main intersections in pickup trucks with machine-guns mounted on their roofs. U.S. troops patrolled parts of Baghdad in convoys of up to four Humvees. They used the more heavily armored Bradley fighting vehicles in Dora. Traffic was heaviest in areas where security forces were deployed in large numbers, forcing traffic to one lane. They also conducted random searches. The crackdown, which army officials said was dubbed Operation Forward Together, began a day after Bush’s surprise visit to Baghdad, promising continued U.S. support for Iraqis but cautioning that “the future of the country is in your hands.” Bush said that any expectation of “zero violence” in Iraq was unreasonable, but he also said Iraqi and coalition forces were stepping up their activities against insurgents, in part by using new intelligence gathered in raids following the killing of top Iraqi terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi last week. “We got new intelligence from those raids which will enable us to keep the pressure on the foreigners and the local Iraqis who are killing innocent lives,” he said. …
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Mere inclusion of Pak troops would’ve solved Iraq/Afghanistan wars? Wow, people in Washington are perhaps running empty headed and unable to figure out such simple forumla. :k:
We will believe it only when insurgency is really over, until then it is all like “War is over”.
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LOL… BTW victory vijays are nothing out of the ordinary.. The monkey declared vijay ages ago and will continue to declare vijays until the cows come home and notin is gona change notin…
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Dear Captain Sahib,
US did ask for Pakistani troops. The requests came out before Gulf War One as well as Gulf War Two.
Absence of Pakistani troops from GW-I was especially moronic thanks to our leaders like Aslam Beg and Hamid Gul. We had at least 1 brigade strength troops posted in KSA. Our able leaders at that time miscalculated big time. They thought Saddam’s million man army will stand and fight the coalition. So Pakistanis decided to stand on the sidelines while the leftists like Egypt and Syria got to spank Saddam’s behind.
Our $tupid leaders wrongly sided Saddam and kept our troops to guard “Harmain Sharifain” (the twin holy cities of Makkah and Madina). This is like some body calls the policeman to guard a house, and the police man innocently says “I am here to guard your drawing room and dining room only”. hahah!
On GW-II we again miscalculated and thought Saddam might have done $tupid things in previous war, but now he is a going to stand and fight for the “Iraqi homeland”. Pakistani generals like Aslam Beg and Hamid Gul were again proven wrong, and Saddam ended up sitting in the big chair of a Baghdad courtroom.
The likes of Hamid Gul and our leftie media is again betting on the wrong side by defending insurgency.
Successful insurgency needs many things including “bases out of war zone”, “backing of a super power”, and a “helpful terrain like jungles or mountains” etc.
Iraqi insurgency lacks all of the three supporting factors. They don’t have bases outside the war zone so they are continuously being attacked. They don’t have a super power support, so the money, training, and weapons are in limited supply. They don’t have jungle or hilly terrain to support them so they are dying like flies.
You think all these insurgents attacks will end? No.
Will the insurgents be stopped from defining Iraq’s face? Heck Yes!
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Three months, years or decades here is the true picture of Eyraq… Just look out for the spin when amreeka cuts its loses and run ala N. Korea, Vietnam, Bay of Pigs, Sudan etc…etc…etc…
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Nation building is no laughing matter. It took 11 years for the American founders to finalize the constitution. 10 to 15 years is a typical time for any nation to get it's act together even that in a relatively peaceful environment.
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Nation building? Nation building does not occur when the invading power massacre's men, women and children and commits war crimes that remind people of Nazi concentration camps.
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Germany was "problematic" for 3-4 years thanks to the leftover Nazis.
Japan however had a "sane" emperor, who saw the light and changed. They re-wrote their constitution as dictated by the US. And very quickly, Japanese nation was back on its feet.
Japan holds a prime example of "learning" from mistakes. I doubt, lefties and terrorists in the ME would tolerate such sane leadership.
