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To: Road Walker who wrote (351305)9/20/2007 10:02:50 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1573868
 
There was a General Polk on NPR today who'd just written a book on historical insurgencies. We were in Vietnam for 14 years after the French had been there even longer and we lost. The Irish insurgency against the English went on from the year 1100 until just recently, if it's really over. He said there just really aren't any real instances of an occupier "winning" an insurgency.

He also said Patraeus was just a politcal tool and wasn't "winning" either.



To: Road Walker who wrote (351305)9/28/2007 4:21:38 PM
From: TimF  Respond to of 1573868
 
Technically to the extent that you have fighters trying to overthrow the government you have an insurgency, or a rebellion. That doesn't preclude it from also being called a civil war. The common uses of those terms overlap.


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