Originally Posted by Redrob

Just this morning.....shit is hitting the fan.

It is like trying to hold the lid down on a pressure cooker. As soon as you walk away, it is going to blow..

All that money spent and lives wasted just so these religious freaks would delay their inevitable mutual annihilation.....

We lose, they lose, everybody loses.

LA Times Story on Bombing

Originally Posted by sortie

This was always the inevitable outcome.
The entry into it was the mistake since getting out of it means this no matter what.

We need to win it to fix it and we can't win it. We simply bought off the Sunni fighters
to make the violence go down so we could look good getting out.
"The surge" was a fraud. It was not a success. It was a temporary payoff to the enemy
fighters to get them to back down for a while.

Originally Posted by Sexentertain_mike

You are totally right about the pay-offs,.

too bad most sheep think the "Surge" is some sweeping new military strategy that was working.

That place is a lost cause....sad to say but true.