dritalin
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The US is already trying to sift out the guys that are willing to put their weapons down and talk. That's how the marines found the shieks in Ramadi who wanted to form the Awakening council. The US policy towards Jaish al Mahdi is to seperate them into different factions. ie, rather than calling all the followers of Sadr Mahdi army, they call the Iranian backed hardliners 'special groups,' and the 'reconcialable' factions the mahdi army.
Reconciliation is a big part of counterinsurgency.
As far as Americans being peace loving idealogues lying on a bed of roses, yah, I think that's pretty true. The American gov't is corrupt, no doubt, but I think the lasting legacy of our founding fathers is a system of checks and ballances that bridle the horse. I think the majority of people in the majority of nations are peace loving idealogues, whereas most of the leaders of almost every country are greedy self serving beurocrats. Thankfully the US gov't is set up in a way that tempers peace into its policy. We may not have gone into Iraq for all wholsome reasons, but there's no way popular opinion would let the gov't go crazy.
Oh, and the Iraq/Vietnam comparisons. Yeah, there's some striking similarities, but none of which have I seen mentioned on this forum. So when comparing the two be carefull that you really know where they run similar. Remember, one was in the jungle, and one is in the desert, and that only begins the complexity of the contrasts. Maybe if you wanted to compare how things are GOING with parallels you could look to British military history in Malaya.
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