Comments on: Sadr Fight Continues http://www.floppingaces.net/2008/05/06/sadr-fight-continues/ Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:50:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: ChrisG http://www.floppingaces.net/2008/05/06/sadr-fight-continues/#comment-55114 ChrisG Wed, 07 May 2008 17:55:01 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/?p=4534#comment-55114 John, is there ever an intelligent or even realistic point to your stupidity? We have lost .05% of our military to deaths in the entire course of the war. Our biggest killer is still the American highway system where soldiers get into traffic accidents (at around 900 deaths/year plus or minus). But you have proven your ignorance time and again. John, is there ever an intelligent or even realistic point to your stupidity?

We have lost .05% of our military to deaths in the entire course of the war. Our biggest killer is still the American highway system where soldiers get into traffic accidents (at around 900 deaths/year plus or minus).

But you have proven your ignorance time and again.

]]> By: Machiavelli http://www.floppingaces.net/2008/05/06/sadr-fight-continues/#comment-54484 Machiavelli Wed, 07 May 2008 06:42:59 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/?p=4534#comment-54484 I see former Ambassador Bolton proposes borrowing a page from the IDF playbook. When Hezbollah was raising hell in southern Lebanon the Israeli Air Force went and lit-up a Syrian radar sight on just the other side of the border; after that Hezbollah was TOTALLY silent for four months. Like Syria, my guess is Iran would rather quickly re-evaluate its support of the Sadr insurgency if some of the costs started to show up on its doorstep. The reason why Iran, Syria, and other less than democratic states in the Middle East feel free to support terrorists is because they are know that the U.S. has taken to fighting with one hand (maybe both) tied behind its back since the end of WWII. I agree with you Curt, why we took Bolton out of the U.N. I can't fathom. Not that I blame the guy if it was his idea; working at the U.N. would drive me crazy too. As for Sadr, if there isn't a CIA / Special Forces team that has a sniper bullet with his name on it, there should be. There are enough domestic Iraqi groups that want him out of the way as much as we do that we'd have full plausible deniability. Sure, there might be a brief violence spike after his demise, but in the long run it would die off without him being around to stoke the radical flames. For all of those out there who would call my suggestion reprehensible, I've already had the discussions with my professor back in my graduate school class on terrorism. The fact of the matter is, when dealing with the extreme fringe factions, trimming them off is a highly effective strategy. I see former Ambassador Bolton proposes borrowing a page from the IDF playbook. When Hezbollah was raising hell in southern Lebanon the Israeli Air Force went and lit-up a Syrian radar sight on just the other side of the border; after that Hezbollah was TOTALLY silent for four months. Like Syria, my guess is Iran would rather quickly re-evaluate its support of the Sadr insurgency if some of the costs started to show up on its doorstep. The reason why Iran, Syria, and other less than democratic states in the Middle East feel free to support terrorists is because they are know that the U.S. has taken to fighting with one hand (maybe both) tied behind its back since the end of WWII. I agree with you Curt, why we took Bolton out of the U.N. I can’t fathom. Not that I blame the guy if it was his idea; working at the U.N. would drive me crazy too.
As for Sadr, if there isn’t a CIA / Special Forces team that has a sniper bullet with his name on it, there should be. There are enough domestic Iraqi groups that want him out of the way as much as we do that we’d have full plausible deniability. Sure, there might be a brief violence spike after his demise, but in the long run it would die off without him being around to stoke the radical flames. For all of those out there who would call my suggestion reprehensible, I’ve already had the discussions with my professor back in my graduate school class on terrorism. The fact of the matter is, when dealing with the extreme fringe factions, trimming them off is a highly effective strategy.

]]> By: john Ryan http://www.floppingaces.net/2008/05/06/sadr-fight-continues/#comment-54355 john Ryan Wed, 07 May 2008 03:51:49 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/?p=4534#comment-54355 wow Sadr lost 500 that is what about 1% of his fighters gee I wonder if he has been able to replace them. As for disarming the fighters I think that the National Rifle Association of Iraq is against that. wow Sadr lost 500 that is what about 1% of his fighters gee I wonder if he has been able to replace them.
As for disarming the fighters I think that the National Rifle Association of Iraq is against that.

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