[liberallarry]

The article doesn't mention that something like 50,000 filipinos were killed.
It also doesn't mention that the Phillipines are islands, difficult for outsiders to supply with troops and munitions, and much more so in 1900 than today.

Historical parallels are difficult because they are never exact...so it's easy to miss crucial differences.

[JohnnyZ]

It also doesn't mention that the Phillipines are islands

I thought that was a given. Philippines.

It also didn't mention that filipina women are hot.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

the Phillipines are islands, difficult for outsiders to supply with troops and munitions, and much more so in 1900 than today.

I'm not certain that great economic hardship would come from an intensive land blockade of any Iraqi border which was a source of trouble. You could never blockade it as well as you perhaps could do the Philipine Islands, but . . .

[Fee]

I think Iraq will end up like Afghanistan. Native pro US troops will patrol with the assistance from SOF advisors backed by gunships. Unlike the Afghan central government, the pro US Iraqi government can use ruthless tactics to root out the Saddamites and rein in the Sunnis and radical Shiites by terror techniques similar but not at the scale to the ones used by Saddam. They can do it because it will be the majority (Kurd/moderate Shiites) who will come down on the minority (Sunnis). I think the Sunnis will learn to behave once the new Iraqi government, paramilitary, and Army comes on the scene and teaches them a severe lesson. US will pull back to the remote areas of Iraq and use it as a basing area to back up the new Iraqi government and operate against Syria and Iran.