Win with FOOD!!!....

[PursuitOfShredded]

This is only an excerpt from an article in the Washington Post on how our Special OPs are trying to win this a different way....with FOOD!

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There was nothing random about the choice of this neighborhood for the first humanitarian effort by Special Operations forces. A local Shiite Muslim religious leader had been identified by a team of Green Berets as pro-American.


As the cleric came out to greet the trucks and its escort vehicles, wearing a checkered headdress and sunglasses, U.S. soldiers began to unload 2,000 daily rations and 3,000 bottles of water. U.S. forces gave the Shiite notable a microphone to let the swelling crowd know that he, and not the soldiers, would determine who got the food. And, he said, more would follow in coming days.


The crowd applauded and a U.S. campaign to win political allies in southern Iraq through selective favors began in earnest.

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NOT a bad idea!!!

 

[WarriorPL]

Some people will do anything for food when they're hungry.

 

[PursuitOfShredded]

Here's the payoff!

The payback for such handouts, according to the major, is more than goodwill. With access to community leaders, the United States can obtain intelligence to target Hussein's irregulars who are turning the 10-day-old war into a guerrilla campaign.

At a water treatment plant just outside Basra, for instance, workers who had been provided with food pointed out a hidden weapons cache to a Special Operations civil defense team after a second day of aid. And good intelligence was visible in an air strike on a meeting of paramilitaries in Basra Friday night that killed an undetermined number of irregulars operating in the city.

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Isn't food the oldest trick in the book to get what you want?