So now the Bad Guys are using amphibious vehicles to deliver their martyrs–and the’re getting pretty good all around. Remember the good lod days when a car bomb only killed one or two people and even then it was only like once or twice a month? (Statistics are completely made up, drawn out of my no-doubt selective and distorted memory)
Anyways, seems like one of the favored targets of the jihad-on-the-brain dudes is the would-be Iraqi police/military dudes. So I got me to thinking, "Man, if I were in charge I’d have a 100 meter dead zone around anything I didn’t particularly want to have blown up. Anything moves in that zone without clearance becomes a target. But I guess it’d be kinda hard to set up that sort of perimeter downtown, so I had to start thinking some more. And now I’m like, “Dude, the Bad Guys train in camps located in remote camps in the middle of the desert. Why the hell do we try to train in downtown Baghdad? Why do ANYTHING there at all?”
So…anybody see any problem with my little plan of moving the police/militia training areas to an easy-to-protect piece of dirt? Anybody have other (feasable) suggestions to improve the security of our troops as well as that of those whom we are trying to train as their replacements?
Well yeah, but you can stick all the command & control & barracks in the desert and have the guys commute to work. It sucks that guys die in firefights, but that’s the job they signed up for. But to have a bunch of heros in one small location is a situation Drill Sergent always referred to as “beggin’ for a grenade.”
Sending these people out to the desert would defeat the purpose as **Merijeek ** pointed out.
From what I read, those who join up with the new army and police forces do so only because it is one of the few jobs in town. These people have no real incentive to fight for the US installed regime and a great incentive just to go through the motions and collect a paycheck. It is likely that the leaders of the opposition have made lists and are making it known through their network, which the US intellegence services apparently cannot penetrate, that anyone who takes that job too seriously will have hell to pay when the US packs up and predictibly leaves in ignominious defeat and the puppet regime collapses like puppet regimes always do.
The best way to protect our troops is to arrange a cease fire and bring bring them home. Without a cease fire, those few who are left near the end of the withdrawal will be in a *very * vulnerable position.
You could see a repeat of the hasty exit from the roof of the American Embassy in Siagon in 1975.