enior British commanders have condemned American military tactics in Iraq as heavy-handed and disproportionate.
One senior Army officer told The Telegraph that America’s aggressive methods were causing friction among allied commanders and that there was a growing sense of “unease and frustration” among the British high command.
The officer, who agreed to the interview on the condition of anonymity, said that part of the problem was that American troops viewed Iraqis as untermenschen - the Nazi expression for “sub-humans”.
Speaking from his base in southern Iraq, the officer said: "My view and the view of the British chain of command is that the Americans’ use of violence is not proportionate and is over-responsive to the threat they are facing. They don’t see the Iraqi people the way we see them. They view them as untermenschen. They are not concerned about the Iraqi loss of life in the way the British are. Their attitude towards the Iraqis is tragic, it’s awful.
“The US troops view things in very simplistic terms. It seems hard for them to reconcile subtleties between who supports what and who doesn’t in Iraq. It’s easier for their soldiers to group all Iraqis as the bad guys. As far as they are concerned Iraq is bandit country and everybody is out to kill them.”
Obviously the English Commander is just a NY Times reading member of this forum. Sad that he can’t think for himself and only follows everyone here. yeah, thats the logic.
What the hell is up with your misspelling, your bizarre single line paragraphs, and your simplistic ideas & sentence structure? This is the third or fourth post of yours that’s been like this. Out of a grand total of 7, that’s not a very good average.
To be fair, as the lead occupying nation, most Iraqis probably are targeting the Americans more just because the USA has the most soldiers there. This, in turn, feeds the idea that everybody is against them.
