Jim's right that civil war has basically been the policy in Iraq. The obsession with training Iraqi security forces was always weird for a variety of reasons, but ultimately we taught a bunch of people to kill each other and provided them with the weapons to do so.
What is so weird about it? This is classic US foreign policy. As we know (or should know) many of the neo-cons cut their teeth on the policies of torture, repression and the backing of death squads in Central America under Reagan. What in fact is weird is referring to this policy as such.
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