Hearts, Minds And Fallujah
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If Fallujah generates greater support for the insurgents, we will have
created new rebel safe havens even as we destroyed an old one.
By Fareed Zakaria
Newsweek
Nov. 22 issue - Fallujah is likely to be a turning point of the war in
Iraq, one way or the other. Either it will mark a decisive blow
against the insurgency, setting the stage for similar operations in
other cities and thus allowing for elections in January. Or it will
not make much of a dent in the overall strength of the insurgency and
Iraq will remain deeply unstable. In that case Fallujah will become
for Iraq what Tet became for Vietnam, the moment at which it became
clear that the insurgency was much larger, more wide-spread and more
resilient than had been previously imagined.
Fareed Zakaria
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