this sounds like a disaster
the supposed former allies of al qaeda know how desperate the US military is for progress in iraq. this is going to backfire in a much shorter time than our arming of afghani militants did after the soviet-afghan war.
With the four-month-old increase in American troops showing only modest success in curbing insurgent attacks, American commanders are turning to another strategy that they acknowledge is fraught with risk: arming Sunni Arab groups that have promised to fight militants linked with Al Qaeda who have been their allies in the past.nytimes article Sphere: Related Content
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seriously. yeah i read this this morning and was quite surprised. how many mistakes are we gonna repeat?
If this is doable now, then why not antebellum?
This is incredible.
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