What Would You Do

In an impossible situation?

When the locals are indifferent, it's hard to win. When the locals secretly loathe you, it's impossible. Don't look for the situation in Husaybah to cool down anytime soon.

It's not that the Marines are complaining, either. They're trying to do their jobs. But the job they've been sent to do don't seem to have a very good probability of ending up with a favorable outcome. Yet again, the military is being weakened by a bunch of chickenhawks. And the people of Iraq? They get the worst deal of all. Occupation, looting, rampant crime, and looming civil war.

And Cheney thought they'd be happy to see us?