I started writing that before you posted your message. Sorry, I thought we were talking about interrogation in all the circumstance. I guess you were focusing on military ones. Pardon.
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I started writing that before you posted your message. Sorry, I thought we were talking about interrogation in all the circumstance. I guess you were focusing on military ones. Pardon.
Allow me to explain a bit more:
1. I am not referring to prisoners taken on the battlefield or even people detained in the course of operations in Iraq or Afghanistan. I am NOT advocating giving...
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Let's hope so.
As for "harsh interrogation"... Maybe we should define our terms. I think waterboarding is torture -...
in the effectiveness and capabilities of the services who use these techniques.
This is not inevitable but it seems to happen fairly consistently with organizations that embrace the use of...
I don't see the contradiction. The reason they thought they could win a battle under those conditions is because they underestimated their enemy.
I'm not sure it can be chalked up to simple...
For all the inaccuracies of the review, I think that he is correct on this most important point - one that does need to be driven home before a new Myth is created about Iraq.
There does still...
Why not create a service specifically for "Counter-Insurgencies" and generally mixed military-police roles (overseas ONLY of course)? Maybe something that is roughly to the army what the Coast...
This is also true of two people I know. They refuse to call themselves 'Iranian' - its always 'Persian'. Of course, both of them are children of those who fled the Mullahs. Im not sure how it is...
I agree and it fills me with a mix of sadness and anger. How many people could still be alive if things had been done differently?
*Disclaimer: please tell me if I get to 'political' with this*
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Third, I've always found the assertion that insurgents often or normally win to be patently wrong because there are hundreds, probably thousands of insurgencies that were defeated at an early stage...
Thanks.
I thought the MOI might have done it because of their immediate promise to send their (mainly shiite) forces to "Help" the anbar sunnis fight Al Queda, but I guess they were just quick...
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When I first heard that Abu Risha, the now famous Anbar shiek, was murdered I had a feeling it could very well have been done by elements of the Central Gov't who wanted to...