There's a Peter Cook-Dudley Moore routine, one of their wool-gathering dialogues, where Dud asks Pete, "So would you say you've learned from your mistakes?" and Pete replies: "Oh yes, I'm certain I could repeat them exactly."
This is somewhat reminiscent of what America appears to be doing in trying to win the hearts and minds of the people of Iraq.
In a recent operation near Baij 1000 troops supported by Apache helicopters targeted THREE houses (count them 3) searching for alleged terrorists. Finding no one but women and children in the houses the armed forces:
"... detained 70 men from districts identified by their informant as 'bad.' In near-freezing conditions, they sat hooded and bound in their pyjamas. They shivered uncontrollably. One wetted himself in fear. Most had been detained at random; several had been held because they had a Kalashnikov rifle, which is legal. The evidence against one man was some anti-American literature, a meat cleaver, and a tin whistle. American intelligence officers moved through the ranks of detainees, raising their hoods to take mugshots: 'One, two, three, jihad!' "
Well done US troops, this is certainly the way to ensure that you are seen as liberators from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein.
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