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Has anyone seen any description of how the US (or anyone else, I suppose) expects the security relationship between the interim govt and the US troops to be structured? I've been half-assedly looking for one but I haven't seen anything as yet.
I'm guessing that this relationship won't be defined until the interim govt takes shape, but I'm curious if anyone in the press has thought about it. It seems to me that with the underwhelming response of the Iraqi police to the recent insurgency the new govt is going to want to lean on the US troops to keep the peace in high-risk situations. The question to me is whether we will allow them to exert that kind of control, and how we will avoid being the striking arm for the settlement of individual political scores.
I realize Jon Stewart has made the interim government's undefinedness a catchphrase, so I have no illusions that I'm making new points here, but this security arrangement to me is gonna be a big issue, esp if US casualties continue at even a fraction of the current rate.
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