Head Scratching Posted by Patrick Barry

Some of these Congressman have got me scratching my head.  Take Congressman McCaul.  After rambling for a minute or so, he finally gets to his main point, and of course, its about time lines.  In McCaul's view, one of the lessons of Iraq was that refusing to commit to time lines instills confidence in the U.S.' indigenous partners.  But weren't the Awakenings motivated to turn against the insurgency because they realized that the U.S. would leave eventually??  Hasn't Secretary Gates repeatedly warned that the instant Afghans view us as occupiers, we're lost? My brain hurts.

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Many have noted that the Anbar shaykhs turned towards us once they were assured we were going to stay, i.e. to be reliable partners against al-Qaeda in Iraq.

See COL Sean McFarland and MAJ Niel Smith of the 1/1 AD who began the process of turning Ramadi in 2006:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0PBZ/is_2_88/ai_n25400889/pg_2/?tag=content;col1

"We also took a different IO tack with the sheiks. Instead of telling them that we would leave soon and they must assume responsibility for their own security, we told them that we would stay as long as necessary to defeat the terrorists. That was the message they had been waiting to hear. As long as they perceived us as mere interlopers, they dared not throw in their lot with ours. When they began to think of us as reliable partners, their attitudes began to change. Still, we had to prove that we meant what we were saying ..."

Of course many of them aren't so happy now that we're largely gone, leaving them to the tender mercies of the Baghdad government.

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Maybe McCaul is scared. Or maybe he just wants to add to the fucked-upedness of TX-10...