Comments on: Iraq: Broken US Army Cannot Engage Al Sadr http://politicook.net/2008/05/02/iraq-broken-us-army-cannot-engage-al-sadr/ Food for the Progressive Soul Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:49:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Asinus Asinum Fricat http://politicook.net/2008/05/02/iraq-broken-us-army-cannot-engage-al-sadr/comment-page-1/#comment-1533 Asinus Asinum Fricat Fri, 02 May 2008 17:29:38 +0000 http://politicook.net/2008/05/02/iraq-broken-us-army-cannot-engage-al-sadr/#comment-1533 Well, it seems obvious now, but I think it was mostly due to sheer incompetence emanating from the idiots in the WH. They, and only they make decisions to attack. Well, it seems obvious now, but I think it was mostly due to sheer incompetence emanating from the idiots in the WH. They, and only they make decisions to attack.

]]> By: Anne Hawley http://politicook.net/2008/05/02/iraq-broken-us-army-cannot-engage-al-sadr/comment-page-1/#comment-1526 Anne Hawley Fri, 02 May 2008 16:46:12 +0000 http://politicook.net/2008/05/02/iraq-broken-us-army-cannot-engage-al-sadr/#comment-1526 The only possible way I can make sense of this catastrophic strategy in Iraq is through the lens provided most notably by Naomi Klein in <a href="http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine" rel="nofollow">The Shock Doctrine</a>. To wit: that this is a conscious and deliberate plan to hollow the military infrastructure and channel the enormous public wealth that pays for it to private interests. The only possible way I can make sense of this catastrophic strategy in Iraq is through the lens provided most notably by Naomi Klein in The Shock Doctrine.

To wit: that this is a conscious and deliberate plan to hollow the military infrastructure and channel the enormous public wealth that pays for it to private interests.

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