Barbara Lerner Strikes Again

Let's interpret what Barbara Lerner actually means here:
Casualties in Iraq have not gone done like we thought they would (except MAYBE the last few months), and it is unlikely that the American people will want to continually stay in Iraq amid these casualties just to prove to those Ay-Rabs that we mean business.
so let's blow up a lot of Syrians!
That's the neocons solution to everything, of course - expand the war, expand the war, expand the war.
And of course, the obligatory reference to how bad the CIA were for not letting Defense handle the interim government, which in essence means not putting Ahmad Chalabi in power.
Also, note this passage:

"[Fallujah] was the site of the first gross, triumphant, in-your-face public lynching of American civilians, and our fighting men did not want to negotiate with the lynchers' frontmen. They wanted to crush them, to send the life-saving message: If you butcher Americans, you die."

Let's not forget that those "civilians" were actually mercenaries; not that the treatment of them was justified, but the implication that they weren't a military arget is not entirely accurate. Also, note that what she wishes had happened would actually entail not just the killing of a large number of insurgents, but quite likely also the leveling of huge portions of the city and large civilian casualties (I don't see any other way to "crush" the insurgents in that case, unless we used ~ 50,000 troops and took several hundred fatalities going door to door). In other words, the CIA is to blame that we didn't just raze Fallujah to the ground.

That is all.