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 cptenaud says: Lt. Gen. Samuel Helland, the contingent's new commanding general, discussed the upcoming deployments, various improvements in Iraq and related topics during a media roundtable yesterday on the base. Camp Pendleton's Marines are returning to Anbar as violence there is declining. Helland said cities are slowly refilling as families who fled violence are going back home. Lt. Gen. Samuel Helland, the commanding general of Camp Pendleton-based 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, said the level of violence in Anbar has declined. “People are riding buses. Kids are playing soccer in streets,” he said. “That didn't happen a year ago.” Other military commanders and defense analysts agree the Marine Corps' reconstruction work reflects a growing sense of calm and relative normalcy in Anbar. Shortly after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the province gained notoriety because of major insurgent cells in places such as Fallujah, Ramadi and Haditha. The region became known as the Triangle of This is a good thing that the Marines in Anbar Province have done. Isn't that what our civilian representatives in the federal government were supposed to do in 2003? Oh yea! That is what they failed so miserably to accomplish. I was always taught that if you "...fail to plan, you plan to fail!" Can it repair all the damage our government did by letting these people in Anbar Province become alienated from their fellow Iraqis in the first place? If people are working and developing their communities, they don't want to involve themselves in destabilizing the government. On a similar track, I saw interviews, in real time on CSPAN, where several Shiite religious and political leaders in Ira... |
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