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To: RMF who wrote (16535)	1/14/2007 2:46:00 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

At the end of the manual there is a bibliography of books, studies and articles on fighting insurgency. It includes classics, such as Alistair Horne's "A Savage War of Peace," but what's interesting is how many of them were published since 2003, amid the Iraq war. Out of this effort has emerged a "best practices" for the U.S. when fighting an insurgency, as now. Whether the U.S. should have done this back when Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his foreign suicide bombers emerged is a legitimate question. The point is this: The Iraq violence has not been running like an untended open hydrant. Some of our best and brightest have been thinking hard about how to shut the valve. Last month AEI released a plan reflecting similar counterinsurgency ideas by military specialist Fred Kagan and the Army's former vice chief of staff, Gen. Jack Keane. In November, the Bush administration joined the rethinking. ... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. One important thing to keep in mind is that the leftwing biased media you prefer falsely portrays the fight to keep Iraq liberated as a losing effort. The playbook is recycled from Vietnam; snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.