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...Syria's troop withdrawal from Lebanon last year has also reshaped Iran's dealings with Hizballah, analysts here say. Before the Syrian withdrawal, Iran and Damascus competed for influence through their various Lebanese proxies, but now Iran is finding it to easier to funnel its support for Hizballah via Damascus. "Iran and Syria are now standing behind each other," says Laylaz. "Their strategy is more unified." Does this mean that Iran micro-manages Hizballah or vets its major operations? "Hizballah sees the need to confer with Iran," says Atrianfar. "But it doesn't necessarily do so over tactics...
...fighting in the south is the worst in five years. Are you ready for it? We knew right from the outset that this was a combat operation. The troop-contributing nations are absolutely trained at the tactical level for what we are about to do. When troops are first confronted by a real enemy, they take time to get into their stride. [But] statistically, when we are confronted by large numbers, the coalition and the alliance have always come out on top. I see no reason why this should change...
...wasn't until some three months later that officers got wind of a different story. In June, after insurgents killed a member of Green's troop and kidnapped and beheaded two others--there's suspicion, but no evidence yet, that this attack was a response to the rape and killings--another soldier in their infantry unit told Army combat-stress counselors in Baghdad about the alleged murders in Mahmudiya. Within 24 hours of the initial report, Army officers turned the case over to military criminal investigators at Iraq's Camp Slayer. Six days later, the FBI arrested Green near...
...which requires high-powered police work, with special forces taking the lead. Similarly, "counterinsurgency is essentially special-forces work," says Colonel Edward Short, director of the Army's coin Center for Excellence in Iraq. "It should be considered an elite operation, requiring special skills. As we draw down our troop levels, the only show in town is going to be advisers. We should be stripping out the very best officers and noncoms to do this work...
...debates in both the House and Senate this week over Iraq policy were in many ways simply political grandstanding. In the Senate, while Democrats were debating amongst themselves a proposal that would call for some kind of graduated troop withdrawal, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, the No. 2 leader of the Senate Republicans, rushed a proposal to the floor calling for the withdrawal of troops by the end of the year, hoping to expose the split among Democrats. Only six Democrats voted for the provision. The House, meanwhile, spent more than 13 hours debating a non-binding resolution, framed...