The Salvador Option - By Scott Ritter

[Indie Media Magazine]

By any standard, the ongoing American occupation of Iraq is a disaster.

By Scott Ritter

12/20/05 "Aljazeera" -- he highly vaunted US military machine, laurelled and praised for its historic march on Baghdad in March and April of 2003, today finds itself a broken force, on the defensive in a land that it may occupy in part, but does not control.

The all-out offensive to break the back of the resistance in Falluja has failed, leaving a city destroyed by American firepower, and still very much in the grips of the anti-American fighters.

The Salvador Option - By Scott Ritter

[NJCher]

1. wonder why

Scott Ritter originally turned to AlJazeera to publish this piece? It's thought-provoking writing that provides the background on why this situation is way more complex than the simpleton bush and his equally simpleton cabinet sees it.


Cher

[Jack Rabbit]

4. I think you know the answer

The US corporate media won't touch this.

[teryang]

2. Brilliant analyis

<Perhaps it is a sign of the desperation felt inside the Pentagon, or an underscoring of the ideological perversity of those in charge, that the US military would draw upon the failed programmes of the past to resolve an insoluble problem of today. >

The notion that the Shia could beat the Sunnis at their own specialty reveals either complete ineptitude on the part of American planners or a deliberate plan to have Iraq plunge into civil war.

[realFedUp]

3. A should read essay. n/t