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To: jttmab who wrote (217865)	2/12/2007 9:13:43 AM
From: Bill	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Where is the enemy getting its munitions?

To: jttmab who wrote (217865)	2/12/2007 3:06:41 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Jttmab, re: "The Post says the Army has ramped up production of the armor for the Humvees but the upgrade may not be completed until this summer. We armor, the insurgents do a work-around and guess what, we spend tens or hundreds of millions to upgrade our armor. And then the insurgents will find a way through that armor using a little ingenuity and a little cash and we'll have to spend hundreds of millions again. It's like the silly "Star Wars" missile defense boondoggle, only this one is costing us money AND lives. You can't defeat an insurgency if the population won't turn on the guerillas. The guerillas just pick their spots, adjust their tactics and pick off the men and women you've sent into the kill zone. And, of course, when your soldiers get scared and angry enough they become highly effective recruiters for the insurgents. The only effective tactic is to get your troops out of the kill zone and, in Iraq, that means getting them away from the places where the guerillas can stay completely hidden, i.e. the population areas. Anyone who doesn't understand that ought to get a second opinion from someone who knows something, anything, about guerilla wars. In the meantime all this talk about armoring and changing tactics on the Iraqi streets is just "trees" talk. The insurgents see the forest; we ought to see it too. Ed