Lawrence Auster makes an excellent point about Iraq.
In Iraq, we are the occupying force; therefore, we have to win in order to win. The insurgents merely have to avoid losing. In other words, our problem in Iraq is not that we are being militarily forced out, but that we have not been able to force the insurgency out.
This is why I can't take the people seriously who claim we are winning/have won in Iraq. I do not see the power of the insurgency as any less than it was a year ago, and I see the Iraqi government as no nearer to providing its own security than it was a year ago.
That is all.
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