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"Bradley K. Sherman" <bks@panix.com> wrote in message

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| [...]
| "Any military solution is now likely to be the kind of 'victory'
| that creates a new firestorm over excessive force, civilian
| casualties and collateral damage,'' wrote Anthony Cordesman, a
| military analyst at the Center for Strategic and International
| Studies. "The U.S. cannot hope to kill or arrest all of the
| Sunni and foreign insurgents that exist now and is almost
| certain to create far more than it destroys.''
|
| Instead, even critics of the current effort such as Cordesman
| say the elements to eventually create peace in Iraq include
| increasing the number of American troops, better preparing those
| soldiers for a guerrilla-style conflict, trying to establish
| more limited areas where the Iraqi people will be safe and
| continuing to try to win over the Iraqi people, in large part by
| showing the United States has the resolve to weather the
| difficult periods.
|
| Cordesman, just back from 11 days in the Middle East, said it
| seems clear that support for the United States is dropping
| among Iraqis, while Iraqi leaders associated with the United
| States have lost credibility.
|
| Iraq, he wrote in a new report, "is virtually a no-win situation
| for the U.S.''
| [...]

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Mission Accomplished: SNAFU

--bks

Sounds alot like ...VIETNAM
The Whitehouse Neocons that wanted this Iraq War,said It was to avenge

the American "defeat"

in Vietnam
Looks like It's going to happen Again , ThickSkulled Morons.

avenge Vietnam? wow, i suppose you can provide a cite?