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Iraq has 26 million people to our 140,000 troops. They'll fight for the next fifteen years if necessary.
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Not all Iraqis are in the insurgency, the highest estimates bandied about by the critical left are of some high-ranking Iraqi military intelligence officer in the quarter million range (but this includes family, kin and relateds in disinterested supporting roles). This is the pool from which to the insurgents are drawn. The relevant figures are the average number of Iraqi insurgents killed per day and how fast are they recruiting.
Critical lefties tell us the insurgency is swelling each day as the disenfranchised grow incensed with mounting occupatio transgressions and failures, but their own figures show 99% of the Iraqis aren't in the insurgency even tangentially.
The Dalai Lama says
modern terrorism was born out of jealousy of Western lifestyles.
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"Fundamentalism is terrifying because it is based purely on emotion, rather than intelligence," the 70-year-old monk said at the seat of his government-in-exile in the northern Indian hilltop town of Dharamsala. "It prevents followers from thinking as individuals and about the good of the world.”
"This new terrorism has been brewing for many years. Much of it is caused by jealousy and frustration at the West because it looks so highly developed and successful on television. Leaders in the East use religion to counter that, to bind these countries together."
Terrorists, he warned, must be treated humanely. "Otherwise, the problem will escalate. If there is one Bin Laden killed today, soon there will be 10 Bin Ladens." http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/0....59wi4hgk.html |