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2024-03-18 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
With Iraq on his mind, US ‘savior-general’ Petraeus points at a way to victory in Gaza
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Posted by trailing wife 2024-03-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11142 views ]  Top
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#1 "The foundational concepts of counterinsurgency are that you clear an area, you hold it, and you hold it in a very significant manner"

Worked well for the Green Zone.
Posted by Skidmark 2024-03-18 07:06||   2024-03-18 07:06|| Front Page Top

#2 John Spencer, chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Modern War Institute in the [formerly] prestigious US military academy West Point.
Posted by Huputle Cherelet4131 2024-03-18 07:29||   2024-03-18 07:29|| Front Page Top

#3 USA wins most of the battles - but always loses the war.

Israel always wins the wars, otherwise we wouldn't exist - but always loses the subsequent peace process.

Is there a common factor?
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-03-18 07:45||   2024-03-18 07:45|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ you choose your Gods.
Posted by Skidmark 2024-03-18 08:29||   2024-03-18 08:29|| Front Page Top

#5 The common factor in "winning but loosing" is because we have leaders that decide winning would look bad. So they piss in the punch bowl.
Posted by ed in texas 2024-03-18 09:42||   2024-03-18 09:42|| Front Page Top

#6 hamas cannot remain in gaza IFF gaza no longer exists (IFF=if and only if)
Posted by irish rage boy 2024-03-18 09:44||   2024-03-18 09:44|| Front Page Top

#7 #5 Hear, hear.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-03-18 09:45||   2024-03-18 09:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Is there a common factor?

Well, Israel is about 8000 sq miles, the size of Massachusetts.

US battles are fought on a global, not neighborhood scale.

I would say the common factor is logistics.
Oh, and the US is providing supplies to everyone.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-03-18 11:11||   2024-03-18 11:11|| Front Page Top

#9 Scott Ritter sez IDF is losing.


Posted by Anginenter Sherelet4063 2024-03-18 11:15||   2024-03-18 11:15|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ Our Jew hater Thrineck/etc. under a new nym
Posted by Frank G 2024-03-18 11:38||   2024-03-18 11:38|| Front Page Top

#11 Imagine some ‘supremacists’ would do that to your community.

They're call environmentalists and climate activists in this country, and often government bureaucrats.
Posted by Procopius2k 2024-03-18 11:43||   2024-03-18 11:43|| Front Page Top

#12 Another point is how well Petraeus' brilliant Iraq strategy worked out.
Posted by ed in texas 2024-03-18 12:35||   2024-03-18 12:35|| Front Page Top

#13 #8 No skid, the common factor - as Tex suggested - is the asylum for criminally insane on the Potomac.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-03-18 12:41||   2024-03-18 12:41|| Front Page Top

#14 The only victory will be to remove all Palestinians from Gaza. Otherwise it is damping down the fires of hate for a while. No victories, only casualties.
Posted by DarthVader 2024-03-18 14:02||   2024-03-18 14:02|| Front Page Top

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