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The Americans Still Don't Get It

By John Damien

The surge isn't going to work because it was wrong to begin with. The first rule for an occupier fighting an insurgency is that you can't win by killing insurgents. Killing insurgents is easy and makes it feel like you are doing something, but its a trap.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17549.htm
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Originally posted by pba:
The Americans Still Don't Get It

By John Damien

The surge isn't going to work because it was wrong to begin with. The first rule for an occupier fighting an insurgency is that you can't win by killing insurgents. Killing insurgents is easy and makes it feel like you are doing something, but its a trap.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17549.htm


Not only not going to work, but, unless I am badly mistaken, it is now up to 30 thousand, 8500 more than first announced.

Bill Moyers says that he sees parallels between the Vietnam war and the Iraq war. He says the media should be challenging the war. And, he says Neo Conservatives have been refusing to come on "Now with Bill Moyers." By the way, Moyers is coming back to television. "Bill Moyers Journal" premieres this Friday at 9 EDT. Check local listings. http://www.npr.org/programs/now/

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