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Well, You Lose Some, And Then You Lose Others

Baghdad’s morgue almost tripled its count for violent deaths in Iraq’s capital during August from 550 to 1,536, authorities said Thursday, appearing to erase most of what U.S. generals and Iraqi leaders had touted as evidence of progress in a major security operation to restore order in the capital. ~The Washington Post There was progress […]

Baghdad’s morgue almost tripled its count for violent deaths in Iraq’s capital during August from 550 to 1,536, authorities said Thursday, appearing to erase most of what U.S. generals and Iraqi leaders had touted as evidence of progress in a major security operation to restore order in the capital. ~The Washington Post

There was progress being made in those neighbourhoods that the U.S. forces were able to lock down and secure more thoroughly–as always, we are drawn back to the fundamental lack of sufficient numbers of soldiers to explain almost everything that has gone wrong security-wise–but this sort of treatment was impossible for most of a huge city of six million people.  What American soldiers accomplished in the neighbourhood of Dura–and they really did accomplish increased security–would be equivalent of focusing intense attention on Hyde Park and leaving the rest of Chicago with relatively little security.  Unsurprisingly, the rest of Chicago would suffer and make up the difference in the gains made in Hyde Park.

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