Thank you troops for your volunteering (or at least acceptance of risk for monetary compensation) and sacrifice. I will support you in the best way I know: by creating policy as best I can with reason and rationality. Right now, my logic tells me that we cannot fight the entire population of Iraq and the foreign fighters, nor should we. As Gary Brecher says, counter insurgency is won through the cooperation of and friendship with the populace, or through complete obliteration of the region. We, seemingly, can't do either, and must accept that we have bit off far more than we could handle. We are losing the "war on terror".
Perhaps the best thing we can do? Refuse to accept the rhetoric and lies that comprise the "war on terror". More correctly, we are fighting a "war of occupation".
Thank you troops for your volunteering (or at least acceptance of risk for monetary compensation) and sacrifice. I will support you in the best way I know: by creating policy as best I can with reason and rationality. Right now, my logic tells me that we cannot fight the entire population of Iraq and the foreign fighters, nor should we. As Gary Brecher says, counter insurgency is won through the cooperation of and friendship with the populace, or through complete obliteration of the region. We, seemingly, can't do either, and must accept that we have bit off far more than we could handle. We are losing the "war on terror".
Perhaps the best thing we can do? Refuse to accept the rhetoric and lies that comprise the "war on terror". More correctly, we are fighting a "war of occupation".