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Iraq-Jordan
Peter Maass: "The Way of the Commandos"
2005-05-01
Very long but worthwhile article in the NYT Magazine by Peter Maass on the counter-insurgency effort in the Sunni Trinagle. Very thought-provoking. Hat tip to Just One Minute.
Posted by:Steve White

#2  Steve, you have to be kidding.

We have now gone from a Vietnam quagmire to a Salvordorization concept of counter-insurgency? All the MSM is trying for in appealing to their Eastern elite establishment is some for of cognitive history to hook them too for a few more readerships. It is bull and you know it.
Posted by: Jack is Back!   2005-05-01 11:44:47 PM  

#1  Typical anti-American bullshit. Uncle Sam is incompetent, whereas the locals are the Noble Savage, full of of fight and vigor, but stymied by American laziness and indifference. Of course, the authors of this study are experts at the black arts of counterinsurgency. Gimme a break. These are guys who couldn't find their rear ends with both ends.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2005-05-01 7:54:53 PM  

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