‘You’re Going to See the Iraqis in Control’

Gen. Ray Odierno says "if for some reason we continue to see a frustration by the people of not seeing jobs increase??? what will their reactions be? That's one I watch very carefully as a potential flashpoint." In other words, the U.S. has paid many of the former Sunni Awakening forces to give up armed struggle, and now that the U.S. is not paying them anymore, will they return to violence? This is ridiculous, "duh!" Of course unemployed people without any source of income will do just about anything, including working for Al Queda, if that is the only way they can get money. Why are most soldiers in the US Army? They aren't join the Peace Corps volunteering. The U.S. shouldn't have spent billions of dollars in Iraq and left the place with no sustainable jobs and Al Queda in the background with big bucks. It is obvious there is no structural way to avoid a return to violence. The U.S. blasted Iraq to bits and is leaving it a mess. Shame on Gen. Ray Odierno and on everyone promoting this terrible war and dismantling of a once economically vibrant Iraq.

Gen. Ray Odierno says "if for some reason we continue to see a frustration by the people of not seeing jobs increase??? what will their reactions be? That's one I watch very carefully as a potential flashpoint." In other words, the U.S. has paid many of the former Sunni Awakening forces to give up armed struggle, and now that the U.S. is not paying them anymore, will they return to violence? This is ridiculous, "duh!" Of course unemployed people without any source of income will do just about anything, including working for Al Queda, if that is the only way they can get money. Why are most soldiers in the US Army? They aren't join the Peace Corps volunteering. The U.S. shouldn't have spent billions of dollars in Iraq and left the place with no sustainable jobs and Al Queda in the background with big bucks. It is obvious there is no structural way to avoid a return to violence. The U.S. blasted Iraq to bits and is leaving it a mess. Shame on Gen. Ray Odierno and on everyone promoting this terrible war and dismantling of a once economically vibrant Iraq.