| i have a hunch that in the coming months, we might begin to hear stories of atrocities committed by iraqis against iraqis. that will either happen, or the cops will continue to be largely irrelevant.
it seems we all agree that improvement will be a slow, bumpy process.. which returns to my original question/concern that the police will begin to be identified as laying in bed with the infidels - so to speak.
i think the chances for iraq's success improve the further we're removed from the picture. we are being scapegoated, and our civilians are being kidnapped and beheaded because of our continued presence there. increasingly, more iraqis have been saying that they're prefer us to leave. if you connect the various surveys, the trend is crystal clear. i can only imagine what the next one will tell (the post-abu ghraib survey). |