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RE: Two, Three, Many Fallujas

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RE: Two, Three, Many Fallujas
by Mike the Usurper at 4:28 pm EST, Nov 29, 2004

noteworthy wrote:
] Media accounts also routinely describe the fighting outside
] Falluja as a "rebel counteroffensive" that surprised the US
] military, implying that the reduction of Falluja merely
] created more insurgents.
]
] But the view conveyed by these headlines is myopic.
]
] The rebels can attack on a broad front for a while, but they
] will not be able to keep it up for long. What is going on in
] the Sunni Triangle is not so much a "rebel counteroffensive"
] as it is the last desperate gasp of a group running out
] of time and space.

]
]
] Drawing on lessons from World War II, this writer disputes the
] implication of my "Slog" poem.

Yes, but it's from the Weekly Standard, one of the only magazines I can think of where far enough to the right that Joseph Goebbels would feel right at home.

RE: Two, Three, Many Fallujas


 
 
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