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More like Vietnam. In Fallujah, the insurgents allowed themselves to be surrounded and were eventually crushed by superior American forces. It strongly resembled the original battle for Baghdad; our armor went in and flattened any building from which people shot back, and heavy infantry cleaned out the rubble. This worked fairly well as a model for urban warfare.
We've been applying strong Darwinian pressure to invent successful tactics and steadily reversing what little popularity the U.S. had to begin with through stray bombs. The insurgents will not allow themselves to be surrounded and slowly crushed again.
Al Sadr has put the U.S. in a losing situation diplomatically. He'll get a chance to move around if there's a ceasefire and if the U.S. refuses we look bad. He has nothing to lose from this.