[lbo-talk] US Air Power to Replace Infantry in Iraq (Juan Cole relays Sy Hersh)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Nov 28 15:28:29 PST 2005


Michael Pugliese wrote:


>http://www.juancole.com/2005/11/us-air-power-to-replace-infantry-in.html
>
>Veteran journalist Seymour Hersh is reporting in the New Yorker that
>the Bush administration has decided to draw down ground troops in
>Iraq. Knowledgeable observers strongly suspect that this step would
>produce a meltdown and possibly even civil war in Iraq (which could
>become a regional war). Bush's strategy may be to try to control the
>situation using air power.Readers and colleagues often ask me why a
>Shiite majority and the Kurdish Peshmergas couldn't just take care of
>the largely Sunni Arab guerrillas. The answer is that the Sunni Arabs
>were the officer corps and military intelligence, and the more

these things are a lot easier to read when there are paragraph breaks, as there are in the original



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