Iraq insurgency: People rise against al-Qa'eda - TelegraphInteresting, isn't it? Just a few months back, Pelosi and Reid were very definite that we couldn't win. Indeed - we were the main cause of the conflict there......
Mr Kareem and other Husaybah residents claim that the peace that followed the expulsion of al-Qa'eda has triggered an economic revival and restoration of favourite pastimes. Ghanim Mirdie Waleed, coach of the local football team, who celebrated a recent victory with cigarettes, paid tribute to the American role in Husaybah.
"The conflict here was all caused by al-Qa'eda," he said. "We work and play as we like under the coalition security. There are jobs for people, shops are opened and we are very happy."
With al-Qa'eda pushed out, Anbaris are even rallying to a new shared cause with America - a fight to secure the country against Iranian infiltration.
You know, I wonder just what else the Democrats might be clueless on. If they were so far off on this - how far off are they on other things they're planning?
J.
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I don't know if "winning" means Iraq will end up as we think it "should", but at this point, standing and fighting is "winning". Running would be disastrous. We still have to beat them at home, though, and the dawa is more insidious - especially with lawyers always at the ready, willing to compromise on principle. It's odd...many of the blogs I read have Jewish authors - they really are the canaries in the mine - but there is also a significant contingent of Jews who seem to work against the self-preservative end. I don't understand that. I suspect it has something to do with the "because we can" temptation - in law as in science. Just because we "can" doesn't mean we "should", but there always seems to be someone willing to step up and go for it. Sort of like the rabbi, the priest and the engineer on the guillotine joke, I guess...
Posted by suek | October 9, 2007 11:21 AM
Posted on October 9, 2007 11:21
By the way...I'm thinking that investment in Iraq might be lucrative over the next few years - any ideas on how to do that?
Posted by suek | October 9, 2007 11:22 AM
Posted on October 9, 2007 11:22
If you believe, as I do, that the economy of Iraq is going to start booming in the next decade the easiest method to invest is to simply buy Iraqi dinars. The current exchange rate for the dinar is 1,233 to one U.S. Dollar.
Before the Gulf War, when the Iraqi oil fields were in full production the Iraqi Dinar was worth roughly $3.20.
After the Gulf War the oil embargo was imposed on Iraq and Saddam Hussein's government began printing dinars without solid economic backing, this caused the value of the dinar to shrink to 3000 dinars to one U.S. dollar.
Immediately after the U.S. invasion in 2003 new dinar banknotes, that did not have Saddam Hussein's picture on them were trading at 4,000 to one U.S. dollar.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_dinar
When the Iraqi economy gets back on its feet and the oil fields get back into production the dinar should climb back to close to its pre-Gulf War levels, a minimum of a 2000 fold increase.
Pretty good odds for a ten year investment program.
otpu
Posted by otpu | October 9, 2007 2:00 PM
Posted on October 9, 2007 14:00