tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20070006.post116854114974374088..comments2024-03-28T04:39:55.959-07:00Comments on A Little Reality: Stay the Course - Part Deuxknighterranthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14886831250521410342noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20070006.post-1168875459528398942007-01-15T07:37:00.000-08:002007-01-15T07:37:00.000-08:00The French phrase literally translates to "After u...The French phrase literally translates to "After us the flood." It was spoken by Madame de Pompadour and, in context, meant, "After me, all hell will break loose."knighterranthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14886831250521410342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20070006.post-1168839406735839892007-01-14T21:36:00.000-08:002007-01-14T21:36:00.000-08:00Read your post on Tigerhawk. Couple of quick poin...Read your post on Tigerhawk. Couple of quick points:<BR/>The Roman legions (From Legio, or “Conscription”) not only took uncivilized barbarians and placed them in front of the legions as shock troops, but they also recruited from them. A Legionnaire was not simply an Italian man who took in the Legion training and discipline (considerably more strict and bloodthirsty than anything you find in a modern army, look up “Decimate”), the Legions also took Barbarians and subjected them to the same discipline as the Legions. Read the Wikipedia entry. Learn something.<BR/><BR/>We are using Kurds because they are an effective fighting force, speak the language, and are not going to try to take over that section of the country (as opposed to the Turks, the Iranians, the Syrians, etc…) The Clear phase will be Kurdish in some places, but the police units that will remain on the ground in the Hold and Build phase will be from the same geographic area. The Kurds are doing us a great favor, they will take casualties doing it, please do not backhand our allies.<BR/><BR/>The Division of Command is a fair question, and you can bet money that it has been stamped flat. US soldiers do not like taking commands from non-US commanders, even in NATO.<BR/><BR/>Corruption in Iraq is a given. The way it is going now it should be reduced to that of another large oil producing area in a year or so. Louisiana.<BR/><BR/>The attack on “Iranian sovereign territory”? Happened two hours before the speech, on a house that a couple Iranians were running a business out of. It was not a Diplomatic Consulate, how can you have such a thing in a country you don’t have diplomatic relations with? And somehow I think the Iranians complaining about somebody attacking their supposedly diplomatic personnel is a bit ironic, right?<BR/><BR/>Last paragraph before you broke into French, you commented on what would happen if the US were to cut and run. I notice you did not have any disagreement with what the President said and his conclusions, just an untranslatable snark. When a Democratic President takes office in two years as you seem to desire, what do you think they should do in Iraq? According to you, we will still be there in much the same situation. If we withdraw as President Murtha suggests, the whole country will break out into bloody civil war fought with tanks and artillery against civilians. So if we are not to do as the President says, then what?Georg Felishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03550333227450728733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20070006.post-1168589324701504932007-01-12T00:08:00.000-08:002007-01-12T00:08:00.000-08:00Response in my town - during the noon hour, a fell...Response in my town - during the noon hour, a fellow in a full mask of GWB, wearing prison stripes and blue deelybobber antennae danced by a busy intersection with a sign that said<BR/>National Guard - just do what I did, go AWOLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com