I mean, if Reuters is publishing good news, then victory must be at hand. Or maybe it’s a sign of the apocolypse—-you decide.
Reuters loads us up on the Good News out of Iraq: too many al-Qaeda dead to count in a village in Anbar, where Iraqi security forces just kept killing them all day. US and Iraqi forces raiding into Sadr City, just messing around right now, a death squad leader here, a death squad leader there, gearing up for the big push. And the Iraqi Foreign Minister says 1,000 former Iraqi Army officers are coming back, a “sign of reconciliation.â€It’s gotta be good news when it gets so quiet in Baghdad they are forced to admit it and make news out of it.
So why is the Baghdad Brain Trust so bummed? Six months or bust? Talk about zeroing in the bad news. Those guys need to get out of the Green Zone, talk to that Anbar sheikh who wants us to win so Iraq will be rich like Japan and Germany and South Korea. Or talk to Mohammed at ITM, who doesn’t mind being stuck in traffic at checkpoints. Maybe talk to this guy’s dad, who says Baghdad’s Shiites want that surge to work. Six months, and you’d let them down? Buck up, Brain Trust.
Read the whole thing here.
Good news coming out of Iraq? Who woulda thunk it?
(H/T Powerline)
Marcus
The real brain trust is COL HR McMaster and the rest of the military intellectuals that have been gathered to manage the surge.