"Dr. Francis Harvey, Secretary of the Army…notes that recruitment is at a 9-year high and that reenlistment is very strong. Harvey talks about the Army’s strength levels, force structure, equipment maintenance loads, and general ability to withstand the stress of the Long War against terrorism. In particular, he responds rather forcefully to claims that the Army is lowering standards to make its recruitment numbers."
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For the men and women of the big cav unit up the road at Fort Hood, it’s back to Iraq.
"The division will uncase its colors later this fall when it takes over responsibility for Multinational Division Baghdad from Fort Hood’s 4th Infantry Division.
Kofi Annan delivers the unstartling news that our invasion of Iraq "destablized" the Middle East. Omar at Iraq the Model elucidates why that is not a bad thing.
"The Syrian Baath regime lost its eastern twin, Iran lost its anti-American, anti-Semitic western neighbor and the family-state in Saudi Arabia suddenly found itself with a northern neighbor where minorities and majorities both have shares in governance."
Omar at Iraq the Model wonders why American generals in Iraq seem to want to tiptoe around Mookie–who has recently come out in strong support of his master Iran’s other protege, Hezbollah–simply because he has a constituency:
"Saddam enjoyed the same, if not more, popularity than Sadr does today (yes, Saddam was popular among more or less a million Iraqis not to mention popularity among other Arabs) and the same applies to Nesrallah, Ahmedinejad and Bin Laden who have millions of supporters among Arabs and Muslims, however we didn’t find it difficult to "demonize" them, right? I mean should we allow the bad guys to grow more powerful just because they are popular?! This is totally absurd…
"Will you stand with those who believe you came to help them, or will you let Iran remain free to push Iraq to doom?"
Indeed, since the long-feared civil war in Iraq seems not to be in the future, as the generals are telling Congress, but already underway, according to some field- and a few company-grade Army officers patrolling Baghdad and environs.
Colonel Brian Jones, commander of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 4th Infantry Division from Fort Hood, disagrees, says it’s more complex than that, in wide-ranging briefing Friday at the link.
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