I really can't comprehend armies fleeing. Ultimate cowardice.

[StevieM]

63. I see what you are saying.

The problem is that the Iraqi army is in it for the paycheck only. They don't care about these Sunni Tribal communities. They give a cut of their salary to their commanding officer and they get out of fighting, but keep their jobs.

The soldiers need to be fired and their jobs--along with their salaries--given to local Sunnis. But that isn't the nature of how Iraq works. The money is all supposed to trickle up to through the ranks of the leadership--the Shiite leadership.

A government like this one needs to be allowed to fall. Then again, there were things we could have done in the beginning which might have somewhat minimized this type of problem. The war may have be wrong, but that doesn't mean that it inevitably had to be this big of a disaster. But what do you expect when 24 year old Americans kids were being given powerful positions in Iraq based on their anti-choice credentials?