[lbo-talk] Friedman: The Strategic Debate Over Afghanistan

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue May 12 04:33:17 PDT 2009


On May 12, 2009, at 12:56 AM, Michael Pollak wrote:


> On Mon, 11 May 2009, SA wrote:
>
>>> We bribed them from the beginning. But before this point they
>>> took the bucks and then shot at us anyway.
>>
>> I'd never heard that before. Where'd you get that?
>
> Really? You never heard about people joining the Iraqi guard by day
> and being part of the insurgency by night? It was notorious in the
> early years. Plus it was why they knew could get around every
> security precaution.

The difference during the "surge" was the purchase of the Sunni Awakening, no? That was much better organized than just paying people to join the army or police.

Doug



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