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To: Sam who wrote (110916)8/10/2003 11:20:49 PM
From: Jacob Snyder  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500
 
This is playing out exactly according to Giap's and Mao's successful guerrilla tactics. Provoke random massive use of firepower by the anti-guerrilla forces. The civilian population, who at first is neutral, is forced to take sides, and a steadily increasing number of them support the guerrillas.

There is no ideology that can trump Islamism and nationalism combined, in Iraq. We have got ourselves on the wrong side of both those ideologies.