Not All See Video Mockery of Zarqawi as Good Strategy

Not All See Video Mockery of Zarqawi as Good Strategy

By C. J. CHIVERS
Published: May 6, 2006

An effort by the American military to discredit the terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi by showing video outtakes of him fumbling with a machine gun — suggesting that he lacks real fighting skill — was questioned yesterday by retired and active American military officers.

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The weapon in question is complicated to master, and American soldiers and marines undergo many days of training to achieve the most basic competence with it. Moreover, the weapon in Mr. Zarqawi's hands was an older variant, which makes its malfunctioning unsurprising. The veterans said Mr. Zarqawi, who had spent his years as a terrorist surrounded by simpler weapons of Soviet design, could hardly have been expected to know how to handle it.

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I'll never understand the urge to make your enemy seem more competent than he is. We in the West always do this. We portrayed the Commie Military Forces as being on a par with the best the Germans could field during WWII and they were most manifestly were/are not! We portray the ChiComms as being world beaters when they can barely field 3 to 4 divisions of professional military people. Now were doing the same thing with these Islamic scumbags.

Here is the way it goes. You bill yourself as guerrilla/underground fighter and have done so for years. You should be proficient with all Western small arms and all small arms from the old Soviet Bloc. If you're going to fight the US you should know all there is to know about US small arms, because that's whats going to be most readily available.

The M-249 squad automatic weapon, known as an S.A.W is not a complicated weapon to use. It's little more than an M-16 on steroids, we're not taking about flying a Raptor F-22 here this is US Military small arm that has been around for years! These Islamic thugs bespeak of incompetence par excellence. The only thing they seem to be good at is building bombs and judging by the amount of one eyed, on handed twits they have they may not be that good after all.

You never underestimate your enemy, however on the other hand you don't give him kudos he does not deserve.