From this AP report,
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had promised to crush the militias that have effectively ruled Basra for nearly three years.
Why is Bush running around proclaiming the brilliance of "THE SURGE" when the second largest city in Iraq has been run by a renegade militia for three years? How has the US allowed the main petroleum port in Iraq to be run by the Iraqi mafia and varying militias for three years? If "THE SURGE" was so successful (which it wasn't because it didn't achieve any of its goals), why didn't our hawks propose a "SURGE" in Basra. The answer is, of course, we're out of troops and if we extended tours, there may be a mutiny. Our coalition allies, the Brits, apparently turned the whole beehive over to the militias and retreated to their bases. God, what a clusterfuck.
Why is anyone surprised that war movies like "Stop-Loss" are tanking at the box office? We've seen nothing but war chaos for five years...maybe six or seven. Why would anyone go to see a movie about more war chaos. Movies are escapism. It takes a minimum ten years before people are willing to see movies about a failed war. Witness The Deer Hunter, or even later the first real portrayals of Vietnam, Platoon and Full Metal Jacket.
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