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2007-10-19 Iraq
No more bad guys to kill? MNF-Iraq Responds to Query
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Posted by Chuck Simmins 2007-10-19 12:38|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top

#1 Maybe they all took a day trip to Karachi.
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2007-10-19 12:45||   2007-10-19 12:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Quagmire!
Posted by anonymous5089 2007-10-19 12:51||   2007-10-19 12:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Well we are still taking fatalities (although for the first 19 days of Oct the rate was about half the Sept rate- itself low compared to the previous 12 months0.
Posted by mhw">mhw  2007-10-19 13:04|| http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]">[http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]  2007-10-19 13:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Remember that there are two sides to the equation. Not just us taking down the bad guys, but also building up the good guys. And with every passing day, the bad guys get weaker and the good guys get stronger.

At a particular point, the Iraqis will be fully policing and protecting themselves, and the US forces footprint will recede until we just occupy bases, providing air support and intelligence coordination.

Psychologically, we have to retrain the Iraqis so that they are so self-confident and strong that when an incident happens, they don't respond to it in the Arabic way, but in the right way. From that moment on, the become a modern state, and stop making enemies of their own people.
Posted by Anonymoose 2007-10-19 14:33||   2007-10-19 14:33|| Front Page Top

#5 kinda like the 70 yr old man who shot the suicide bomber the other day moose
Posted by  sinse 2007-10-19 14:37||   2007-10-19 14:37|| Front Page Top

#6 We have just seen more captures and less violence in general recently.

Maybe some of these captives would respond to a little re-education...heh, heh, heh. Maybe like Clockwork Orange only specifically tailored for jihadis.
Posted by Abu Uluque6305 2007-10-19 15:38||   2007-10-19 15:38|| Front Page Top

#7 This is how an insurgency ends, with a whimper.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-10-19 15:54||   2007-10-19 15:54|| Front Page Top

#8 Chuck, et.al.,

I have noticed that in DC there is less talk of Iraq and more talk of other things including Iran (W ratched up the rhethoric with his WW3 comment). The papers are quiet and so is TV - even NBC saw fit to take Olberman on Sunday night football. The Dems are so desperate to keep associating calamity with Iraq they sent out their senior senile Trotskyite (Pete Stark) to throw a few bombs about Iraq and W in discussing the SCHIP vote. When you add up the politics and news value its what they call a "snore".
Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back!  2007-10-19 16:12||   2007-10-19 16:12|| Front Page Top

#9 This is how an insurgency ends, with a whimper.

First thought: "don't get cocky, kid!", it will continue to taper off for the next few years.

Second thought: Eggdzactly, NS. No surrender ceremony on the deck of a carrier, just the surviving terrorist scum quietly slinking back to their parent's basements, with a ringing "never mind" sounding across the Internets.

Of course, whenever they post their fantasies to Kos, myDD, etc. some poor schlub at the NSA is going to have to read it. Oh, well.
Posted by N guard 2007-10-19 18:36||   2007-10-19 18:36|| Front Page Top

#10 Lulls over. 11 killed in Iraq Monday and Tuesday, 5 today. 12 killed in Afghanistan today.
Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins  2007-10-19 21:06|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org]  2007-10-19 21:06|| Front Page Top

#11 This lull may be over, but more lulls to come. The tide has definitely turned. We'll have to listen hard to hear alQ's final fizzel.
Posted by wxjames 2007-10-19 21:23||   2007-10-19 21:23|| Front Page Top

#12 wxjames, Iraq, yes.

Elsewhere, uncertain. Pakiwaki is an area that has a potential for some form of jihadi offensive. Whether AQ or some otherly named outled is not that relevant, same shite, essentially.

Rats are also leaving for Eurabia and it is likely that they will stir some trouble there, especially in more dhimmified regions.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-10-19 21:49|| http://www.twobyfour.info]">[http://www.twobyfour.info]  2007-10-19 21:49|| Front Page Top

#13 It's kinda like having fire ants. You can chase them out of your yard, but they just go next door. It is not until everyone gets on board with the eradication program that you wipe them out.
Posted by SteveS 2007-10-19 22:59||   2007-10-19 22:59|| Front Page Top

#14 and just about as intelligent...
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2007-10-19 23:08||   2007-10-19 23:08|| Front Page Top

#15 This is how an insurgency ends, with a whimper.

I'll second that.
Posted by phil_b 2007-10-19 23:22||   2007-10-19 23:22|| Front Page Top

#16 Study the tail-end parts of the Malaysia (Post Briggs), Boer2 and the Brits.
Posted by OldSpook 2007-10-19 23:29||   2007-10-19 23:29|| Front Page Top

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