Hey Iraq, how’s that withdrawal going?
by David Adesnik | June 26, 2009
Peter Feaver, formerly of the NSC, has some sharp analysis over at Shadow Government, including an improbable comparison of Hillary Clinton to Dick Cheney:
These [recent] attacks may simply be what Secretary Clinton has called “a signal that the rejectionists fear Iraq is going in the right direction.” This sounds eerily like the much-derided claim by Vice President Cheney that similar attacks back in 2006 were a sign of “desperation” on the part of terrorists. It may have been a sign of desperation, but, at least in 2006, the terrorists were able to use them to seize the initiative.
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2 Comments - add your own
JESS — June 27, 2009 at 6:25 pm
David,
Iraqis till now have no security.
Just two weeks ago an armed forces went to a house in Durra (south Bagdad) killed some members of the family then dragged their bodies out on the street and fed to their doges.!!!
Theses seen done on the street inside Iraq no single any Forces (US, Iraqi knows about the group.
People kept in silence who are these group doing these horrible acts..
For last six years Iraqi lived with horrors from the day Paul Bremer disassembled Iraq military and police forces.
David Adesnik — June 29, 2009 at 5:37 pm
If Americans had to live with the kind of violence that now happens in Iraq, Americans would protest that we have no security.
Yet in the case of Iraq, rigorous analysis demands that we compare the situation two years ago to the situation today. Millions of people who once feared for their lives now feel secure and have greater confidence in their government.