Ok - I was just curious. And I am NOT slamming on you - so please take this in the way I am saying it which is an honest question - could it be that the scope of their knowledge then, is limited only to the area in which they are currently serving? I’m thinking back to Fallujah, when it was so completely out of control. Certainly the Marines who were there would have had the thought that Iraq was completely “unmanageable” and that there may never come a success. But Soldiers and Marines in other parts of Iraq had a different viewpoint and different thoughts.
There has to come a time when we have to turn their country back over to them. I was once very optimistic that this would work. But there is so much divisiveness and corruption in that culture that I am now doubtful it will ever happen. When police stand by and let members of their tribes blow up other tribes Mosques, something once thought to be out of bounds, something is very wrong. When Al Qaeda has infiltrated the Iraqi Army and the police and are soldiers or cops by day and terrorists by night, something is very wrong.
The only solution I feel is to have three Iraqs. Shia, Sunni and Kurd. A doubt a unified democratic Iraq will ever happen.