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2005-06-12 Iraq-Jordan

StrategyPage Iraq: How the Cops Took Back the Streets

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Posted by ed 2005-06-12 09:24|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Memo

TO: the mainstream press
FROM: Rantburg
RE: Attached story

We're winning in Iraq. You need to cover things like this better.

Posted by Mike 2005-06-12 09:45|| 2005-06-12 09:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Garrisoning soldiers outside of their home provinces has been a standard means of maintaining control of the state for thousands of years. That our people did not use this method, choosing instead (until now) to have Sunnis garrison their own territory means either that they were being ultra-nice to the Sunnis just for niceness's sake or that they wanted to keep the Sunnis alive as a political counterweight to the Shias. I hope that it was the latter objective that prompted this policy.

Posted by Zhang Fei">Zhang Fei 2005-06-12 10:57|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-06-12 10:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Best line in the whoel article:

"Kurdish and Shia Arab cops saw cracking down on Sunni Arabs as a rare combination of business and pleasure."

Posted by OldSpook 2005-06-12 17:47|| 2005-06-12 17:47|| Front Page Top

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