Poll: 70 Percent of Iraqis Say Surge Has Failed
Not a big surprise--no PR campaign can change the facts on the ground. It is pretty discouraging that 60 percent of Iraqis believe it is okay to kill US troops. Maybe some GOP hack can spin this as a positive, but to me that is reason alone to leave.
US surge has failed - Iraqi poll:
About 70% of Iraqis believe security has deteriorated in the area covered by the US military "surge" of the past six months, an opinion poll suggests. The survey by the BBC, ABC News and NHK of more than 2,000 people across Iraq also suggests that nearly 60% see attacks on US-led forces as justified.
This rises to 93% among Sunni Muslims compared to 50% for Shia.
The findings come as the top US commander in Iraq, Gen David Petraeus, prepares to address Congress.
With respect to the surge, the numbers are not surprising, given that civilian casualties and sectarian cleansing has gone up since the increase in US troops. This led respected foreign policy expert and Newsweek International editor Fareed Zakaria to say that fears of genocide in Iraq after an American withdrawal are misplaced because large-scale ethnic cleansing has already occurred:
One of the dirty little secrets about Iraq is that Iraq has increasingly been ethnically cleansed. It’s sad to say, but the American Army has presided over the largest ethnic cleansing in the world since the Balkans. When people say bad things are going to happen if we leave, bad things have already happened. Where were you for the last four years?
Your tax dollars at work.
US surge has failed - Iraqi poll:
About 70% of Iraqis believe security has deteriorated in the area covered by the US military "surge" of the past six months, an opinion poll suggests. The survey by the BBC, ABC News and NHK of more than 2,000 people across Iraq also suggests that nearly 60% see attacks on US-led forces as justified.
This rises to 93% among Sunni Muslims compared to 50% for Shia.
The findings come as the top US commander in Iraq, Gen David Petraeus, prepares to address Congress.
With respect to the surge, the numbers are not surprising, given that civilian casualties and sectarian cleansing has gone up since the increase in US troops. This led respected foreign policy expert and Newsweek International editor Fareed Zakaria to say that fears of genocide in Iraq after an American withdrawal are misplaced because large-scale ethnic cleansing has already occurred:
One of the dirty little secrets about Iraq is that Iraq has increasingly been ethnically cleansed. It’s sad to say, but the American Army has presided over the largest ethnic cleansing in the world since the Balkans. When people say bad things are going to happen if we leave, bad things have already happened. Where were you for the last four years?
Your tax dollars at work.
posted by Faithful Progressive at 8:10 AM
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