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Gods Merc said:
It should also be noted that a war against guerilla and terrorist tactics is guarenteed to fail unless you are willing to be utterly ruthless, which we are not.
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I agree, 100%. The point you fail to mention though is that the public won't support this ruthlessness unless it sees the threat as CLEAR and IMMINENT which is not what brought us to Iraq, in the middle of a civil war, or to remove Saddam.
Why launch a war you know can't be effective, because it doesn't have the factual basis for support of its people that make up the army, and national collective?