{"id":2856,"date":"2008-04-06T08:44:29","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T16:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2008\/04\/06\/08\/44\/sadrs-tete-a-tete\/"},"modified":"2008-04-06T08:44:29","modified_gmt":"2008-04-06T16:44:29","slug":"sadrs-tete-a-tete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2008\/04\/06\/08\/44\/sadrs-tete-a-tete\/","title":{"rendered":"Sadr’s T\u00c3\u00aate \u00c3\u00a0 T\u00c3\u00aate"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no surprise that so few stopped to absorb the disastrous six-day battle of Basra that ended last week \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a mini-Tet that belied the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153success\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of the surge … the political coalition and militia propping up Mr. Maliki are even closer to Iran than the Sadrists … the Maliki-Sadr cease-fire was not only brokered in Iran but by a general whose name is on the Treasury Department\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s terrorist list: the commander of the Quds force of Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Islamic Revolutionary Guard.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If Moqtada S. is kicking ass all over Iraq, why does he call off his militia before they can win total \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWestern-style\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 victory? … Sadr called off his boys for lots of good reasons: The first job of a guerrilla army is to stay alive. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s much more important than winning a Western-style victory. The Mahdi Army is intact, ready for the next round … A guerrilla army facing occupiers with a monopoly on air power is committing suicide by going for total victory on the ground, seizing an entire city or district. Just ask the Sunni, who bunkered up in Fallujah and got slaughtered. By melting back into the civilian population, the Sadrists are now invulnerable to air attack.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no surprise that so few stopped to absorb the disastrous six-day battle of Basra that ended last week \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a mini-Tet that belied the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153success\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of the surge … the political coalition and...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[610,609,37,593,608,607],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fallujah","category-iran","category-iraq","category-mahdi-army","category-maliki","category-sadr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t