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U. S. Response to Insurgency Called a Failure

Ouch! And lemme guess... all unnamed sources and insinuation :-(

These liberal news rags couldn't be working more effectively against America if they were on al Qaeda's direct payroll.

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This is a NRO article related to this issue...

Hapless Foot Soldiers? The New York Times's unyielding advocacy for America's enemies.

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Well the expert they use for the thesis is Andrew Krepinevich of the Center of Strategic and Budgetary Assessments in Washington, an expert on counter insurgency warfare.
He says" What gives you a sense of confidence we're going to become a lot more competent at something we haven't shown a great deal of competence at doing for a year".

Some top American officials bristle at the criticism and say the US led coalitions plan has been consistent from the beginning to bring security to Iraq in preparation for an eventual hand-over to Iraqi forces.

"Our strategy is not complicated. It is to train Iraqis as quickly as we possibly can and as efficiently as we possibly can....