Re: US Air Power to Replace Infantry in Iraq (Juan Cole relays Sy Hersh)
Michael Pugliese wrote:
http://www.juancole.com/2005/11/us-air-power-to-replace-infantry-in.html
Veteran journalist Seymour Hersh is reporting in the New Yorker that the Bush administration has decided to draw down ground troops in Iraq. Knowledgeable observers strongly suspect that this step would produce a meltdown and possibly even civil war in Iraq (which could become a regional war). Bush’s strategy may be to try to control the situation using air power.Readers and colleagues often ask me why a Shiite majority and the Kurdish Peshmergas couldn’t just take care of the largely Sunni Arab guerrillas. The answer is that the Sunni Arabs were the officer corps and military intelligence, and the more
these things are a lot easier to read when there are paragraph breaks, as there are in the original