Thoughts 11 Aug 2007 12:33 pm
Lost: 110,000 AK-47s
Remember when our fearless leaders said it would take just a few months to get us out of Viet N… oops, sorry, I mean Iraq, and how the security farces were going to jump right in and take over.
Now, in case you haven’t heard, they can’t account for 110,000 AKs and 80,000 pistols. Not to mention 135,000 sets of body armor and 115,000 helmets. It makes you wonder how many tons ammunition they’ve “misplaced.”
These items were to be given to the Iraqi security farces.
From the beginning of this latest cluster fuck, there has been a huge amount of desertion, and tribal and religious tension, in the security farces.
According to the BBC: There remain question marks over the reliability of elements of the Iraqi security forces, especially the police.
I love this statement, because to this day the security farces have entire units that refuse to show up for duty.
On the other hand, the government’s brilliant plan to arm the locals is working out just fine. The security farces are now able to arm their fellow tribesmen or religious sects. Additionally they improve the country’s economy by creating jobs in a thriving black market.
When George the First did his thing in that part of the world, he sent troops in, got someplace, and declared a victory and left. Some people were unhappy be cause we didn’t hunt down Hussein, but on the whole, most people were just glad to have our troops home.
George II took us in there, after almost a year of telling Hussein we were coming, and then, looked confused when everything didn’t automatically fall into place.
Everything in that part of the world is divided along religious or tribal lines, including the government of Iraq, that the US put in place.
(Don’t ever let the word elections confuse you, it does not mean there is any real choice.)
And yet King George and his court Jesters failed to see any possibility of having to occupy and run a country that we took over by force of arms.
In fact they look confused because the people they thought would be instant allies, haven’t changed.