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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (236589)6/9/2005 9:05:31 PM
From: neolib  Read Replies (2) of 1576660
 

Perhaps the Iraq government will prove weaker and less effective than the South Vietnamese government did, and won't be able to contain the insurgents even with US assistance, and without a serious threat of a massive convention invasion from any neighbor. If so all that will show is that a weak unpopular government can fall. It doesn't say much about counter guerilla or anti-insurgency warfare in general.


Unpopular governments tend to be the type that attract insurgents. Weak unpopular ones tend to be the type that are defeated by insurgents. IMO, that says rather a lot about counter guerilla or anti-insurgency warfare. Defeating insurgencies is difficult unless you deal with the root problem. This is what I learned in southern Africa, and I believe the USA has so far failed to learn in Iraq.
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