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[Urbane Guerrilla]

Glatt, Glatt, Glatt. Am I wrong to wish you knew more about counterinsurgency?

Insurgencies take a long time to build, and long and continual social discontent before they become viable at all. (This was the thing the leftist radicals of the Sixties never understood. Sure, they felt discontented. What they never got was they were the only ones.) It takes a like period of time to turn a discontented society away from insurgency. It is an unmiraculous, daily-grind endeavor of small daily victories or losses.

You can find a lot more in indepth study of the subject, but that's the bumper-sticker version.

Cracking the nuts of freedom's enemies is not something I run out of patience with.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Fortunately, Petraeus is smarter than you, and could tell the difference between a counter-insurgency and an invasion. That's why he was able to rally the locals against the invaders in Iraq, and stop the madness, rather quickly.

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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Glatt, Glatt, Glatt. Am I wrong to wish you knew more about counterinsurgency?
Insurgencies take a long time to build, and long and continual social discontent before they become viable at all.

Having massively reduced the Iraqi standard of living in his seven months, then Bremmer cut out of town - secretly. Leaving a massive insurgency in Iraq that killed most of the 4,400 American soldiers. Your right. It took a very long seven months to create that insurgency.