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To: Harvey Allen who wrote (114807)	9/14/2003 7:08:33 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<their tormentors - save for the famous Saddam "remnants" - cannot be Iraqis at all.> In all guerrilla wars, in any time or land, the anti-guerrilla forces say: 1. the guerrillas are a small band of foreigners and fanatics, who 2. have no support among the population, and 3. the guerrillas control civilians entirely through terror. Indians say the troubles in Kashmir are entirely due to Islamist infiltrators from Pakistan. Israelis claim the Intifada would collapse if only the Iranians and Saudis would quit sending checks to the families of suicide bombers. The U.S. in Vietnam always said the Viet Cong used terror, not persuasion, to get food and information from civilians. And we said it about the insurgents we helped fight, from Greece to the Phillipines to El Salvador. It's like everyone is reading off the same script. Or maybe there is a highly conserved gene, that produces this stereotyped behavior. Nobody is capable of admitting that "recon by fire", bombing civilians, checkpoints, area sweeps, racism and the random violence of foreign soldiers, are the direct causes of support for guerrillas.