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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (152183)	11/21/2004 12:40:57 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

What was done in Fallujah? The insurgents were deprived of a safe haven where they could operate openly. That is not easy to replace. Nor were the insurgents universally popular in Fallujah as you suppose - the foreigners came in and were soon ordering the locals about, taking what they pleased, executing whoever crossed them. We have seen many reports of this and the Marines found 20 foreign fighters who had been shot in the back of the head! No, Fallujah isn't going back to being what it was anytime soon. What it does become depends largely on the decisions of the Sunni tribal leaders who have the influence in those parts. Those tribal leaders may still want to aid the insurgency but after Falluajah I guess the aid the will be covert, not overt. Do not make the mistake of thinking that because you are fighting terrorists, you must be fighting perfect terrorists, who are fish swimming in Mao's sea, doing everything right, with wide popular support. This, at bottom, is not a unified Iraqi nationalist insurgency fighting to throw out the Americans. It is a Sunni insurgency (not a majority of Sunnis at that) fighting to re-enslave the rest of the Iraq. The rest of Iraq has learned this over a summer of kidnapping and head-hacking. The Marines just took Fallujah to the silent acquiescence of the rest of the Iraq.