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Originally Posted by Kapt Z
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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl
I'm game. How do we motivate them?
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It's an enormous risk, but leave.
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I'm actually in favor of that strategy because I could care less about the region. I don't see it ending well for Iraq, though. We'd be leaving a big power struggle behind as well as a lot of civil instability. Historically, that's a recipe for dictatorship.
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Originally Posted by OneToughHerring
To label the Iraqis "lazy", "undiciplined", etc. is a bit off the line though. They are what you train them to be. Some turn out to be insurgents? Then they don't have enough reason to abandon the insurgent cause. You have to give them that incentive and you have a new friend. And to tell them to run off into a fire fight with the insurgents? Whoa there Lash La Rue, how about some planning first?
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Well, I don't expect that they would have much motivation since they live in a frankenstein country that was sewn together from scraps of the Ottoman Empire but it doesn't change the fact that most of their soldiers are worthless.
We give them a lot of the same training that we get, but it doesn't seem to help much.