We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/12/heh_3.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:46:25 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification The first paragraph squares with my sources in the box and recently out. The American military is fed up with Maliki. The ground commanders in Iraq felt betrayed by him this summer when he undermined a push to get control of the streets of Baghdad. The Iraqis failed to deliver on a promise to put enough troops on the ground. A four-star general who declined to be identified discussing a confidential conversation told of this encounter with Gen. Peter Chiarelli, who was in charge of day-to-day ground operations. "Do you have enough forces? Enough to clear an area and stay... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/12/heh_3.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/12/heh_3.html Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:43:34 -0600 I would have to agree and admit that I don't have ANY confidence in Maliki. And I think Bush is sadly mistaken to continue to do so, if he does (in private). Maliki is either incapable, incompetent, or (my greatest fear) unwilling to stop the sectarian violence (especially from the Shiite militias) to continue to exact retribution on Sunnis for past Baathist atrocities, and because of his own desires to continue to strengthen Iraq's Shiite majority ties with al-Sadr and Iran. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/12/heh_3.html#comment-53692 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/12/heh_3.html#comment-53692 Mon, 04 Dec 2006 12:39:46 -0600 As I said... Studying the goings-on inside the Politburo was far easier than this muddled mess. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/12/heh_3.html#comment-53691 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/12/heh_3.html#comment-53691 Mon, 04 Dec 2006 11:21:02 -0600