The current strategy involves implanting our forces directly into the population, setting up neighborhood bases instead of remote fire bases, dealing directly with the communities, and other methods of bringing the population on to the right team. There are a lot more details to this, but suffice it to say we aren't running the war like we were in 2006.
I'm aware that the government in Iraq is having trouble integrating the grass-roots Sunni forces into the system, and that this needs to be done. I probably follow this a lot more closely than you do.
There are many, many sources detailing what's going on over there, only some of them mainstream. Check them out, they're not hard to find. I've already posted links dozens of times, in hopes people would start checking them on their own. Obviously, I was mistaken.
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- "Optimism grows in Iraq."
- So why are you complaining?
- You mean the silent army is re-grouping
- how's the Silent But Deadly army doing? (n/t)
- An old joke.
- You hope. (n/t)
- why stick with what's working?
- re: what's working
- And where do you get that information?
- re: what's working
- why stick with what's working?