[lit-ideas] Re: A Question REALLY Answered
- From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 19:55:51 +0000 (GMT)
--- Andreas Ramos <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's not easy to use a rifle scope
(cut)
> I think the problem for Iraqi is the general
> unfamiliarity with rifles. They probably don't
> go hunting. Shooting ranges and gun clubs probably
> don't exist.
Iraq had an army fully conversant with modern
weaponry. I'd say
a major problem now is that troops are being trained
in six weeks (here, it would be two years).
> > Is "Andy" saying that those people who choose to
> join Iraq's new
> > armed forces are different from their American
> counterparts in some
> > way: I.Q. or hand-eye co-ordination or willingness
> to listen and to
> > be subject to military discipline? What makes
> them "untrainable"?
Interesting questions, David.
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