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2007-02-27 Iraq

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Posted by Fred 2007-02-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Someday, Iraq will be a study in leadership. Nowhere else has broad sections of a nation's military and police received training from the US and British Army, the US Marine Corps, US law enforcement officers, the FBI, the German Polizei, the Australians, etc., etc.

Each of these organizations implants its unique culture into its Iraqi trainees institutional cultures that will blend and intermingle in an almost Darwinistic expression of leadership, producing who knows what?

This will make their military and police extraordinarily durable. No matter what the problem, somebody in their ranks will have an answer for it. No matter what is done, somebody will think they have a better way of doing it.

It will be an extraordinary study in the future.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-02-27 09:55|| 2007-02-27 09:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Someday, Iraq will be a study in leadership.

It sure will! It will prove conclusively that you can't overcome Arab Tribal sentiments and tendencies with any amount of training and knowledge transfer.

The Indians have a saying: "You can't expect a monkey to appreciate the taste of ginger!"

The first time I heard it, I said: "That describes Arabs to a "T"!"

Posted by Chiper Threreger8956 2007-02-27 13:12|| 2007-02-27 13:12|| Front Page Top

#3 "Never try to teach a pig to sing, it wastes your time and it annoys the pig"

Posted by Rob06">Rob06 2007-02-27 15:55|| 2007-02-27 15:55|| Front Page Top

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