Originally posted by RT and his SE:
Now we have a guerrilla war on our hands, something that they are better at then we are. What do I base this on? The fact that they know who we are and we don't know who they are. Our soldiers are easily identifiable which makes them a target every minute of every day. Our technology can't help us differentiate between the good guys and the bad because they all look just like the people we're there to liberate. While we're trying to figure out who we're fighting soldiers are wounded and dying everyday. The American public(Rep or Dem) won't stand for years of prolonged bloodshed.
Unless all of the governments of the Middle East come together to fight this problem it will never end. We can't win this kind of war...we can only hope to hand it off and make it someone else's problem.
I'm gonna have to agree with this. If by some miracle Iraq becomes able to self-police, what's our next project? We've learned that sovreign nations don't necessarily take kindly to militaristic "acts of kindness," no matter how beneficial the envisioned result might be. So if throwing troops at a problem isn't the answer, what is? Taking the "kill terrorists when they expose themselves" reactionary role will not fix the underlying problems or mitigate American losses. This is why I've always thought the term "war on terror" was overly-simplistic.
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