how long is basic training, shouldn't we have been able to train every Iraqi to be a soldier by now?

Question

isn't that your complaint about welfare, that it makes people dependent on the government, that they won't ever want to fend for themselves, am I missing something, where are their patriots, it's almost as if they didn't want us there?

Answer 1

For the coin we've dished out in No-Bid Contracts and 100$ bill pallets, we could have flown every able bodied Iraqi over here, sent them through basic, and another two years of special ops, put them on a cruise ship home....etc etc. Instead, radicals have infiltrated the program, the Shiite's have formed death squads (can you say Jon Necropante--Iran Contra) and in the end we've accomplished nothing except an addition of fighters for the CIVIL WAR.

How do you go into a man's home, humiliate and embarass him in front of his family or at some torture prison and expect him just to go with the flow and not wanna fight back?

It's three factions over there--we support the minority, discount one completely, and are at total odds with the last. The faction's over there are playing a mass game of musical chairs (the Jackass version with the bull) that has no end.

Obviously they don't want us there.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6154791&ft=1&f=1001

Answer 2

Ding...ding... A lot of the people who we are training only show up for a while, get paid, and then never return. It is a different culture than ours. The ones who really want freedom are too afraid to come out and be trained because their families are threatened. I don't have a solution for this other than for those people to stand up and take a risk just as our founding fathers had to do.

Answer 3

Well I did read about regionalism there apparently there are alot of tribes and basically telling a guy who lives 50 miles from Bagdad that he has to go fight there causes alot of hard feelings. There is not much nationalism in that country. Good for them. I dont want to be their police.

Answer 4

In the U.S., Army BT is supposed to be about 3 months, but it's longer for the Marines, if I remember correctly. (In my day, it was 2 months with Sundays off, provided you didn't **** up...) But Iraq isn't the U.S. Still, you do present a good point; by now, they should have a clue.

Answer 5

Very good question. I look forward to wading through the usual insipid vituperation to see if anybody comes up with a rational answer.