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Originally posted by sgtclub
You don't believe that, assuming the Iraqi Military gets up to speed, that they won't have more success in identifying the bad guys and winning hearts and minds? I do. I also saw on Charlie Rose recently a retired general and former member of the Joint Chiefs say that the training of the Iraqis is going far better than he expected and far better than he witnessed a year before, and his belief was that we would begin pulling out within a year, though he acknowledged that we would need to keep command and control personnel there fore many years to come.
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I'd be delighted to see it happen. However, let's say I'm skeptical. We started out in an advisory role in Vietnam, and we supposedly returned to an advisory role in the early 70's there. We all know how well that turned out.
I'm not suggesting that we throw in the towel. I just worry that we have gotten our man-tits in a wringer that we will working long and hard to get out of.
