As everyone knows, as soon as we’ve trained the Iraqis to provide their own security, we’re leaving Iraq. But they’re embarrassingly slow learners!
We’ve been training them for more than two years – ever since we supervised the looting of ½ billion pounds of explosives, the destruction of 4000 year old artifacts, the disappearance of 10 billion dollars, and the death of 50,000 civilians maybe – who’s counting? Yet somehow, those Iraqis still don’t seem to know what security is, or how to do it themselves.
When we train Iraqi soldiers, we show them how to fight without air support, tanks, or armor piercing firearms, and with just glow sticks to see at night. They must not realize we’re watching from our Bradley vehicles through our night vision goggles – but we do and, believe me, they’re total cowards!
And so lazy! And the weapons they bring to work really stink! And that’s a good thing actually, because I don’t think they’re too loyal, either. Could it be genetic?
As our leaders are now pointing out, training is going slowly not just because they’re stupid, but because they’re lazy and cheap – they want us to provide free security indefinitely. Well I say, no more free ride for them! It’s past time we force-fed them some democracy – by listening to the 80% who want all foreign fighters out of Iraq. That’ll teach them.
For once, let’s stand up for ourselves and our interests – let’s take our toys and go home.
Who’s with me?
Happy indigenous abundance celebration day.
And you’ll get damn few comments with a title like that.
How about another option: Iraqi’s aren’t joining the Army, or cooperating with Americans, ’cause they’ll get their assess blown off by their own country people for doing so?
Who says they should do shit for the occupiers who don’t even provide their people with clean water or electricity?
Is this better?
I changed it again and added a poll to make the intent clearer.
Yeah, after we’ve blown the living shit out of thier country and killed so many of thier children, they have some fucking nerve taking thier sweet ass time getting all trained up in the ways of killing innocents.
What exactly is your point?
My point is, occupiers who are infamously incompetent in all levels of Iraq security can’t possibly “train” locals to provide security there. Anyone who talks about us “training” Iraqis is a liar, a racist, or a fool fumbling for an excuse to justify continuing the occupation.
Another point: we’ve had little success convincing our “representatives” to actually help the Iraqis by ending the occupation. Americans are way too arrogant and racist for that. But if we frame it as impatience and embrace the arrogance and racism behind the whole “we’re training them” ruse, it will be easy to get self-centered, self-proclaimed patriots on board. Sure enough, our politicians are already feigning impatience with Iraqis in their talking points.
Contrary to judy’s comment, this diary probably needs a snarky enough title so these points are more obvious. The original title was
Iraqis: Stupid, Lazy, or Ready?
and maybe I should change it back to that. Ideally one could find a title that defies all this gravity.
OK. Paragraph one explains your intent and belief behind it but snark, in my opinion, is not the best way to generate a thoughtful conversation about this.
Second, if framing the Iraqi’s as lazy, ungrateful losers is your idea of what it will take to get everyone on board for the pullout, then I want no part of a further degradation of a people who’s children are being murdered.
I did think the whole was supposed to be fierily sarcastic–framing the pull-out in rabidly racist terms meant that we throw this racism in high relief, and highlight the bankruptcy of these statements.
But perhaps you are right–snarky is not the best way to deal with the horror that the US has unleashed on Iraq.
Like others, I have spent considerable effort addressing the racism that fuels our Iraq occupation more directly. But the racism is ignored or flatly denied and needs to be brought out in greater relief.
This effort is more:
“That n*gger stinks too bad to spend another day in our fine jail. Free him!”
Sadly, even Murtha, Hillary/Biden and Cheney/Bush are already pursuing the “no racists here, we’re just very impatient” angle already. Guess that’s why folks here were primed to take this seriously.
Those who commented and recommended this at My Left Wing “got” it, but I’m learning the Booman culture is pretty different. I’m hoping the poll at least helps make the snarkiness clearer. Any suggestions for the RedState and DKos versions?
the notion of writing something about how the Iraqis were just too damn ungrateful and did not deserve all the democracy that was getting spread on them along with the excrement in the Ghraib and the fleshmelt and fleshexplode everywhere else, that they have been ungrateful ever since the first crusade when US liberated them from their water structure to enhance the effect of the freedom sanctions, that in fact the whole region is just so damned ungrateful for all the wonderful things the imperialists keep telling us Amrika does for the simple childlike folk of the Majority World that such an undeserving bunch should be obliged to hobble along as best they can without all the munificent munitions the good-hearted Americans keep showering on them.