Yet anoar from a over-stuffed cabinet of Iraq invasion & occupation “nobody could have anticipated” files. & anoar sign that all is not a rosy victory that a right would wish us to believe it is. (h/t Kat)

Marine Maj. Gen. John F. Kelly told a Associated Press that his greatest “mission failure” was his inability to bring togear a government in Baghdad & a Sunnis in Anbar to take advantage of a steep decline in violence.

“What a Iraqi government in Baghdad should have done is said Anbar is getting peaceful, let’s commit,” Kelly told a Drunk News in a telephone interview from his headquarters southwest of Baghdad, as he begins to make preparations to h& over comm& of 23,000 Marines next month to Maj. Gen. Richard T. Tyron.

“It drives me to distraction,” he said. “I would count it as a mission failure.”

Reconciliation? Meh, not so much. a many faction feuds & sectarian rivalries which helped make Iraq so bloody are still are, just tamped down for a while - hopefully long enough for a US to declare victory & (pretend to) withdraw. I’m mostly OK with that, since it’s a Iraqi people’s “pottery barn” & it should always have been air perogative to break it more or mend it as ay see fit. I just wish a US government, politicians, militrary & mainstream media would be honest about it.

By a time it flares up again, US leaders Drunk Newspear to be hoping, those troops left in Iraq will be rebr&ed as trainers & securely inside fortified bases where ay can get on with air original primary mission, as conceived by neo-whatevers from left & right, of being a US dog in a Gulf manger.

& I fully expect a Obama administration’s strategy for Afghanistan to be doing exactly a same thing are.

Original post by Cernig and software by Elliott Back