British officer blasts U.S. tactics & racism in Iraq

[G_j]

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British officer blasts U.S. tactics Says army's 'cultural insensitivity ... amounted to institutional racism' By ALAN FREEMAN

Thursday, January 12, 2006 Posted at 5:01 AM EST

From Thursday's Globe and Mail

WASHINGTON — A senior British military officer has lashed out at the U.S. Army's performance in Iraq, accusing it of cultural insensitivity that "amounted to institutional racism" and a predisposition to offensive operations that proved counterproductive when it was faced with a growing insurgency.

Brigadier Nigel Aylwin-Foster, who served alongside the Americans in Iraq in 2004, made the scathing assessment in an article in the latest issue of Military Review, published by the U.S. Army itself.

The article has prompted an angry reaction from some U.S. military officials, including the colonel in charge of the army's School of Advanced Military Studies, who lashed out at Brig. Aylwin-Foster as "an insufferable British snob."

Brig. Aylwin-Foster, who was deputy commander of a program designed to train the new Iraqi army, praised the U.S. Army for its patriotism, sense of duty, commitment, talent, and humanity and compassion. In the 14-page article, he also lauded the army's initial success at toppling the regime of Saddam Hussein
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[pocket]

1. pot, kettle...

2 armies of racist thugs, one denouncing the other.

[G_j]

2. sort of surprising

this was published in the Military Review.

[Karenina]

3. See, the Brits have learned

to at least pretend and behave as though they're not. The Amis have a L-O-N-G way to go on that score...

[G_j]

6. they have a long experience with "empire"

for one thing, it is better strategy not to tell the occupied they are the "enemy".
They had learned to attempt to appear as the benign 'older brother' as opposed to the jack-booted bully. It is all about Empire never-the-less, but America is back in the crusades mentality.

[Tom Bombadil]

5. Yes but one army,

far more racist, more gung-ho, more intolerant towards muslims and more brainwashed than the other.

[Karenina]

7. The pictures from Abu Ghraib

so need to see the light of day and receive wide distribution. That's just the in-house fun and games...

[applegrove]

4. Was published in american military magazine. Read Assassin's Gate!