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[Vyan]

If you actually wanted to defeat the various insurgent forces in Iraq - we'd have to go about it in a completely different manner than we have. We've blown this gig from the beginning by going it alone, with too few troops and committed numerous and repeated War Crimes along the way to compensate for our lack of manpower and forsight.

To Paraphrase Rumsfeld:

Has it gone so far that we can't possibly rectify the situation? Probably. But it's not yet impossible. We should be phasing the Iraqi forces into forward combat positions and rotating our own people out to the rear and over the horizon as their forces come online - yet there are major issues of corruption, and a brewing internecine conflict between Sunni and Shia. A solution similar to that used in Bosnia, where the country was essentially partitioned for each ethnic group to reduce hostilities, should be considered and encouraged for the Iraqi government. Our goal has to be to get them back up and standing on their own feet.

I don't know if this would work, but what we're doing now certainly isn't.

Vyan