medicinal
03-16-2007, 12:50 AM
Training Day
LA Times:
American military planners have begun plotting a fallback strategy for Iraq that includes a gradual withdrawal of forces and a renewed emphasis on training Iraqi fighters in case the current troop buildup fails or is derailed by Congress.
A "renewed emphasis"? Call me horribly naive, but weren't we supposed to have been doing this all along? It's been a long time since we heard how that "training" has been going, hasn't it? We're not alone. Read this piece about how, as recently as January, the Defense Department refused to provide the government's own internal auditors with a statutorily mandated update. Remember that level one/level two/level three scale for Iraqi troop readiness -- which became "classified" when it was exposed as a farce? By now it's "top secret" I'd guess....
posted by The Cunning Realist at Monday, March 12,
LA Times:
American military planners have begun plotting a fallback strategy for Iraq that includes a gradual withdrawal of forces and a renewed emphasis on training Iraqi fighters in case the current troop buildup fails or is derailed by Congress.
A "renewed emphasis"? Call me horribly naive, but weren't we supposed to have been doing this all along? It's been a long time since we heard how that "training" has been going, hasn't it? We're not alone. Read this piece about how, as recently as January, the Defense Department refused to provide the government's own internal auditors with a statutorily mandated update. Remember that level one/level two/level three scale for Iraqi troop readiness -- which became "classified" when it was exposed as a farce? By now it's "top secret" I'd guess....
posted by The Cunning Realist at Monday, March 12,