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well, the reality is that the approach is to create an administrative transfer of the iraq theater (in all senses) from explicit combat to some kind of peculiar Ädvisory role in a context where this transfer obviously does not coincide with a deceleration of violence--although it's also possible that the level of violence has been kind of constant but the way its reported has varied it's hard to say really---either way it seems clear that there's a volatile-to-civil war-ish situation and the space seems really open for private military contractors to play a predominant war. i hope this doesn't become a mercenary theater. like angola or something. bad bad bad. very bad.
but looking at how the situation appears, quite apart from what i might prefer to see, i'm kinda unclear about what is happening.
what i wonder about is the extent of political opposition to the drawdown whatever you call it within the military and the possibility that brings with it of variation in what's being reported, so the creation of the impression that this is a strategically bad idea. part of the theater of public opinion dontcha know. i wonder the extent to which faction fights happen across information flows, don't you? makes watching the news kinda exhilirating. but i digress.
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