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[Thomas Beckett <thomas AT tbeckett.com>]

I haven't been paying that close attention to developments in Iraq the 
past couple of days (I let the Agonist do it for me), but it is hard to 
avoid the sense that we are getting our asses seriously kicked there 
just now.

I am also wondering why our government and military there are so 
surprised by this.  What do they think happened to the Iraqi army when 
Baghdad fell.  There was no surrender, they just melted away.  With 
Saddam gone, the soldiers reverted to their core affiliations:  clan and 
Islam.  Sunni or Shi'ite, it makes little difference.

TaB

P.S.  The Agonist - http://www.agonist.org/