W's upcoming "New Way Forward" speech

[derrida]

Well preechr, it's not as if this strategy hasn't been tried before. In fact, one of the first places we tried it was Fallujah. We also tried it in Tal Afar, which has been more successful.

Kahljorn: Yes, there is precedent for this kind of war, but not exactly parallel. Blowhards like Victor Davis Hanson (who tends to get some credence around here) like to mention the british counterinsurgency against the maylays in the 50's, but the british (actually their chinese proxies brimming with ethnic hate for the maylays) only had to kill 7,000 guerillas over the course of 10 years. Compare that with American generals placing an estimate of 50,000 insurgents killed so far and then stating that the insurgency is in fact growing.