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Unlike Previous Counterinsurgencies [HOW THE AMERICAN LEFT DEFEATED AMERICA]
The New York Sun ^
| November 21, 2006
| MICHAEL LEDEEN
Posted on 11/25/2006 2:59:49 PM PST by Mia T
[T]he Baker/Hamilton club... would do well to study the classic works on counterinsurgency. The first comes from a French lieutenant colonel, David Galula, who was a commander in Algeria in the 1950s.... His classic work, "Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice," has become required reading for the more thoughtful members of the military community.
.... Galula formulated five basic laws for fighting insurgencies:
(1) The population is the basic target.... Whichever side wins over the population will win the war...
(2) Support from the population can only be obtained through the efforts of the minority among the population that favors the counterinsurgent.
(3) This minority will emerge -- and eventually become the majority -- only if the counterinsurgent is seen as the ultimate victor. For us to win, the original minority will have to take risks, and it will only do that if we are known, respected, and seen to be winning....
(4) The superiority of the counterinsurgent will almost never be so overwhelming that he can simply dominate the whole territory. The counterinsurgent has to concentrate his efforts area by area, and demonstrate staying power and resolve....
(5) At a certain point, the war itself becomes the central issue. The population's attitude is dictated not by the intrinsic merits of the contending causes, but by their conviction about winners and losers. Whoever is judged the likely winner will gain popular support, and most likely win the war. Being seen as the eventual winner eventually determines the winner, short of creating a military dictatorship that simply executes anyone on the other side.
It's pure Vince Lombardi: Winning is the only thing.... [T]he people must think you're the winner.... If they don't, they'll either avoid you or support the enemy....
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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
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THE INCONVENIENT TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON (FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU. FOOL ME TWICE, SHAME ON ME.)
ON PEGGY NOONAN ON HILLARY CLINTON SENDING MEN TO WAR (IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY)
HILLARY GOES NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION IN THE AGE OF CLINTON
QUID PRO COAL2: CLINTON CORRUPTION + THE SEQUESTRATION OF GASEOUS FOSSILS (HILLARY DOES COAL AT THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB)
TIRE INFLATION, GAS STATIONS + THE NEED TO SEQUESTER HILLARY
Nina Burleigh: Do the Right Thing, Hillary
HILLARY REMEMBERS
HILLARY DOES NOT RECALL, DOES NOT REMEMBER, HAS NO MEMORY, HAS NO RECOLLECTION, BUT DOES NOT BELIEVE SHE SAID IT BECAUSE SHE WOULD HAVE REMEMBERED IF SHE DID.
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Sen. 'KnowNothing Victim' Clinton Holds News Conference EFFECTIVELY PLEADS 5th BY INVOKING SPOUSAL PRIVILEGE
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"HAIR" THEY GO AGAIN: CYNTHIA McKINNEY PLAYS THE RACE CARD
BILLY + CYNTHIA McKINNEY vs. BILL + HILLARY CLINTON a distinction without a difference
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HILLARY VOTE FRAUD missus clinton uses Jesus
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AFTERWORD: A Note to the Religious Right
What's black and white and read all over and is more self-destructive than pre-9/11 thinking? Pre-clinton thinking, that's what.... Putting doctrinal purity ahead of making sure a defective and dangerous clinton never again controls this country is pre-clinton thinking. We no longer have the luxury of time or circumstance to massage our sensibilities, to indulge our indignations. We will not survive another clinton. (We may yet not survive the first one.)
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THE ABSURDITY OF THE 'HILLARY IS A BITCH' THEORY OF ELECTABILITY AND OTHER PODHORETZ NONSENSE NOTE: Podhoretz is absolutely right about one thing-- even hillary clinton can win if the Right FRACTURES over its pet issues. We must not, in this Age of Terror, allow another Perot or Perot-surrogate issue elect a defective and dangerous clinton by a plurality. (Nor must we allow either to defeat us in '06.)
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DUBAI-ITIES: HILLARY 'KNOWNOTHING VICTIM' CLINTON STRIKES AGAIN
DICK MORRIS: CLINTON IS A PAID AGENT OF THE CROWN PRINCE OF DUBAI
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THE VOUCHER RANT OF MISS HILLARY: WHY THE WHIFF OF RACISM EXCEEDS THE WORDS
HILLARY CLINTON, DANGEROUS DEMAGOGUE WHAT IS HER VOUCHER RANT REALLY ABOUT ANYWAY?
WHY HILLARY IN THE OVAL OFFICE IS A NATIONAL-SECURITY NO-NOPART ONE
KARL ROVE'S MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION: MOI HEAR HILLARY, CHRIS MATTHEWS ET AL.
"I DON'T RECALL" (THE CLINTONS COMMIT PERJURY WITH IMPUNITY)
BILL MAHER WARNS DEMOCRATS: HILLARY WILL TAKE YOU OVER A CLIFF IN '08
PARTY OF LINCOLN AND THE WAR ON TERROR
'REFUSAL TO LEVEL WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE' ... IS HILLARY 'KNOWNOTHING VICTIM' CLINTON'S MIDDLE NAME
WHY THE CLINTONS FAILED "TO CAPTURE OR KILL THE TALLEST MAN IN AFGHANISTAN" (DID THEY REALLY WANT TO TAKE HIM OUT ANYWAY?)
'MAKE IT A RULE' -- PLACE YOUR ORDER FOR OSAMA WITH CLINTON and CO. (HEAR HILLARY + BILL MAKE THEIR PITCH)
ON THE FICTIONALIZED MEMOIR (HEAR HILLARY IN SF)~PART TWO~ THE (oops!) INADVERTENT ADMISSIONS OF HILLARY AND JANE IN SAN FRANCISCO
THE (oops!) INADVERTENT (TERRORISM) ADMISSIONS OF BILL + HILLARY CLINTON (HEAR HILLARY IN SF) ~PART ONE~
ON PEGGY NOONAN ON 4 PRESIDENTS AND A FUNERAL
'HIATUS' FOR HILLARY?
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CLINTON 'CULTURE OF CORRUPTION'
~SEE VIDEO~ IRAQI GENERAL: SADDAM MOVED WMD TO SYRIA BEFORE INVASION (ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE IS NOT EVIDENCE OF ABSENCE, CINDY SHEEHAN)
IS REUTERS SENDING A MESSAGE ABOUT A COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF HILLARY?
ON REJIGGING GALLUP'S LOSING NUMBERS FOR HILLARY THE ALTERNATE UNIVERSE OF ANNE KORNBLUT
GONE WITH THE WIND (miss hillary's 'plantation' blunder)
SEE VIDEO: "HILLARY IS 'DOOMED'" (more 'plantation' fallout)
THE 'BORED,' BEFUDDLED POLITICS OF JOHN KERRY RETURNS CALLS FOR ALITO FILIBUSTER FROM 'SKI SLOPES'
REDACTION LOOPHOLE: ACCESS TO THE BARRETT REPORT
HILLARY CLINTON KNEW ABOUT THE RAPE: HEAR JUANITA BROADDRICK
ROCKEFELLER SEDITION: WHO IS CALLING THE SHOTS?
THE ABSURDITY OF A COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF HILLARY
HILLARY'S ARMOR: A decades-old story...
My New York Times Review of Munich CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE WORST KIND (please FReep)
WAR AND TREASON AND THE NEW YORK TIMES (Please see post 65)
Alien Abductions, Flying Saucers + Other Weird Phenomena, c.1992-2000
ON WARRANTLESS SEARCHES AND WIRETAPS: THE ABYSMAL CONSTITUTIONAL RECORD OF BILL + HILLARY CLINTON
CHRIS MATTHEWS: 'BUSH BELONGS ON MOUNT RUSHMORE' IF HE WINS 'GREATEST GAMBLE SINCE ROOSEVELT BACKED BRITAIN BEFORE WWII'
THE FAILED, DYSFUNCTIONAL CLINTON PRESIDENCY (DECONSTRUCTING CLINTON'S HOFSTRA SPEECH) -- part1: clinton's "Brinkley" Lie
AFTERWORD: ON CLINTON SMALLNESS (BRINKLEY MISSES THE POINT)
WHY DID BILL CLINTON IGNORE TERRORISM? Was it simply the constraints of his liberal mindset, or was it something even more threatening to our national security?
IT TAKES A CLINTON TO RAZE A COUNTRY
BIN LADEN FINGERS CLINTON FOR TERROR SUCCESS (SEE FOOTAGE) THE THREAT OF TERRORISM IS AS CLOSE AS A CLINTON IS TO THE OVAL OFFICE
'The Path to 9/11' Annotated: CLIPS, SYNOPSIS, THE CLINTON-9/11 NEXUS, THE CLINTON JACKBOOT
'The Path to 9/11': CLINTON FAILURE TO ORDER 'PURE KILL' CUT CHANCES OF GETTING BIN LADEN IN HALF
HEAR 'THE PATH TO 9/11' SCREENWRITER: CLINTON WILLFULLY FAILED TO NAIL BIN LADEN AS MANY AS A DOZEN TIMES: CIA
PRESIDENTIAL FAILURE, 9/11 + KATRINA
Republican-voting, Hollywood-dwelling, Bill-Maher-writing Master of Tongue-in-Cheek, Paladin of Truth, Reviews 'United 93' AND Bill Clinton
'UNITED 93' vs. 'MUNICH' Paul Greengrass--thank the stars--is no Steven Spielberg
UNITED 93:THE CLINTON-9/11 NEXUS "We have to do it now. We know what happens if we just sit here and do nothing...."
ALBRIGHT INDICTS CLINTON FOR TERRORISM FAILURE (and doesn't even know it)
HEY CLINTON! SIZE DOESN'T MATTER.
MISSING CLINTON AUDIO! 'Can we kill 'em tomorrow?' (+Albright-Fulbright-Nobel TERRORISM revelations)
Carpe Mañana: The (bill + hillary) clinton Terrorism Policy ('Can we kill 'em tomorrow?')
I M P E A C H M E N T h e a r --c l i n t o n --l o s e --i t
CROOKS PARDONING CROOKS PARDONING CROOKS: Justice Undone in the clinton White House
WHY HILLARY MUST NOT WIN. WHY HILLARY CANNOT WIN. (ICKES + ESTRICH PROVIDE ROADMAP--oops!--FOR HILLARY DEFEAT)
IMPERIOUS HILLARY (THE REPORTS OF HER DEATH ARE GREATLY UNDERSTATED)
AN OPEN LETTER TO TIM ROBBINS, DAVID GEFFEN, CHRIS MATTHEWS, MAUREEN DOWD + JEANINE PIRRO RE: a not-so-modest proposal concerning hillary clinton December 7, 1941+64
IS DICK MORRIS AN IDIOT? OR IS HE STILL ON THE CLINTON PAYROLL?
clintonCORRUPTION: the more things change. . . .
Yitzhak Shamir Validated: THE CLINTONS ARE "A GREAT DANGER TO JEWS"
for the birds (THE INCOMPETENCE OF HILLARY CLINTON)
CHENEY: CALL THEM REPREHENSIBLE THE DEMOCRATS ARE GONNA GET US KILLED (kerry, clinton + sandy berger's pants) SERlES5
A CALL TO IMPEACH CLINTON IN ABSENTIA
NEWT: CLINTON COMMITTED ONE OF WORST CRIMES, ENDANGERED COUNTRY, IF HIT ABDULLAH UP FOR CASH
Listen to this and ask yourself if America Ever Had the Remotest Chance Under a clinton to Avoid 9/11 (To paraphrase Einstein: "The unleashed power of terrorism has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophes.")
Is the 9/11 commission calling bill clinton's statement '"unreliable," or did it choose willful ignorance this time, too?
sandy berger haberdashery feint (the specs, not the pants or the socks)
THE LEFT'S RECKLESS TET-OFFENSIVE-GAMBIT REPLAY: the left's jihad against America is killing our troops, aiding + abetting the terrorists and imperiling all Americans
NANO-PRESIDENT, MEGA-DISASTER history will not be kind to bill + hillary clinton
NANO-PRESIDENT the danger of the unrelenting smallness of bill + hillary clinton
HIROSHIMA'S NUCLEAR LESSON bill clinton is no Harry Truman
CLINTON RAPES, REVISIONISM, USEFUL IDIOTS AND ENTROPY (an update)
JENNINGS DOES A DIMBLEBY: clinton legacy-RAGE redux
1st Feminist Prez Impeached (clinton, pushed by the "smartest woman in the world," managed to impeach himself)
THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT? clinton legacy of lynching update
For the children? the clintons ARE pornography downloads
pro-islamofascist-terrorist radical chic WHY THE LEFT IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA
The Left's Fatally Flawed "Animal Farm" Mentality (Why America Must NEVER AGAIN Elect a Democrat President)
Why hillary clinton should never be allowed anywhere near the Oval Office... or any position of power REASON 1: SHE HIRED JAMIE GORELICK
HILLARY'S TRIPLE PLAY the clinton putsch + filegate + the gorelick wall
HILLARY'S MIDDLE-FINGER MINDSET (MAD COVER 2) Do you really want THAT finger on the button?
"What, me worry?"
ALFRED E."What, me worry?" CLINTON + CRAZY HIL MAD COVER STORY
THE THREAT OF TERRORISM IS AS CLOSE AS A CLINTON IS TO THE OVAL OFFICE
How did the flower children fall for the clintons, 2 such self-evident thugs and opportunists? (FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU! FOOL ME TWICE, SHAME ON ME!)
Alfred E. Neuman + the threat of terrorism, according to hillary
HILLARY IS NIXON-PLUS part 1 BEWARE THE SYNERGY Nixonian paranoia and fascistic mindset combine with clintonian megalomania, ineptitude and, most important, easy betrayal of America to make hillary clinton deadly dangerous for us all.
hillary's burqa
HILLARY'S COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF PROBLEM (see descriptor morphs)
HILLARY IN AVIARY
CLINTONS' DOCUMENTED ABUSE OF WOMEN
hillary clinton is a "CONGENITAL LIAR" ("I am not a crook")
KLEIN BOOK CAUSES HILLARY TO (oops!) CONFIRM "THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY" CLINTON'S REACTION EXPOSES FASCISTIC MINDSET, TEXTBOOK CASE OF PARANOIA + MEGALOMANIA, AND A CONSCIOUSNESS OF GUILT IN BROADDRICK RAPE
the clinton-clinton-Broaddrick kind of rape, according to Susan Estrich
HEAR CHRIS MATTHEWS + MAUREEN DOWD DEVOUR HILLARY
THE DANGER OF RUNNING VICARIOUSLY Bill O'Reilly chews up and spits out the hillary clinton candidacy (clip included)
ESTRICH IMPEACHED BY HER OWN WORDS, EXPOSES STOCK HILLARY PLOY: EXPLOIT WOMEN my amazon.com review
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: ED KLEIN AND SUSAN ESTRICH AGREE ABOUT HILLARY
HEAR SUSAN ESTRICH: hillary plays 'the victim' for votes
HILLARY FLUNKED D.C. BAR EXAM "the smartest woman in the world" sought less competitive venue
HILLARY!?? WHAT IS THIS MORIBUND LOSER DOING IN THE POLITICAL ARENA, ANYWAY? (bill's bud explains)
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COPYRIGHT MIA T 2006
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posted on
11/25/2006 2:59:52 PM PST
by
Mia T
To: Gail Wynand
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posted on
11/25/2006 3:05:21 PM PST
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: joanie-f
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posted on
11/25/2006 3:06:27 PM PST
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: jla
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posted on
11/25/2006 3:06:56 PM PST
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: Mia T
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posted on
11/25/2006 3:07:34 PM PST
by
Brian Allen
("Moral issues are always terribly complex, for someone without principles." - G K Chesterton)
To: Brian Allen
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posted on
11/25/2006 3:07:47 PM PST
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: UWSrepublican
thanks for the heads up ping
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posted on
11/25/2006 3:08:56 PM PST
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: Mia T
(5) "At a certain point, the war itself becomes the central issue. The population's attitude is dictated not by the intrinsic merits of the contending causes, but by their conviction about winners and losers. Whoever is judged the likely winner will gain popular support, and most likely win the war. Being seen as the eventual winner eventually determines the winner, short of creating a military dictatorship that simply executes anyone on the other side."
Well, the dims, the msm, and some Republicans have declared we have been defeated and the insurgents have won. So that takes care of # 5.
To: Brian Allen
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posted on
11/25/2006 3:12:26 PM PST
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Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: Mia T
The more people I talk to, the more I'm hearing from idiots who didn't believe that the 'RATS would be able to win the House AND the Senate. There are a lot of morons out there right now with election hangovers who are asking themselves what they did at the big election party on November 7th. They think the headaches are bad now, wait until comrade Pelosi picks up the gavel in January.
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posted on
11/25/2006 3:16:47 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(America! It's off with the desert BDUs and on with the lavender burqas!!!)
To: chessplayer
Recall how early The Left surrendered....
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posted on
11/25/2006 3:17:29 PM PST
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: WorkingClassFilth; Gail Wynand; Brian Allen; Lonesome in Massachussets; yoe; YaYa123; joanie-f; ...
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posted on
11/25/2006 3:18:53 PM PST
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: Mia T
"Recall how early The Left surrendered...."
Yup. The left was declaring our defeat the minute the first tank crossed into Iraq.
To: chessplayer
I call it Propaganda War.
It's a shame really. If the Left hated the insurgents as much as they hate America, the terrorists would be dead or in hiding.
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posted on
11/25/2006 3:27:44 PM PST
by
Maelstrom
(To prevent misinterpretation or abuse of the Constitution:The Bill of Rights limits government power)
To: Mia T
(1) The population is the basic target.... Whichever side wins over the population will win the war... Democracy Sux.
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posted on
11/25/2006 3:29:35 PM PST
by
Doe Eyes
To: Doe Eyes
"Democracy Sux."
Which is why the Founding Fathers gave us a representative republic instead.
Every subsequent expansion of the franchise -- aka step towards mobocracy -- has hurt us.
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posted on
11/25/2006 3:40:39 PM PST
by
dsc
To: chessplayer
These apply to the Iraqis not to us and the terrorists have failed to achieve any of this. The terrorists only hope of victory now rest in the hands of the Democrats in the US House of Represenatives. But take heart Freepers. 58 of those Democrats have to go back to Districts that voted 52% or more for GW Bush in 2004.
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posted on
11/25/2006 3:41:47 PM PST
by
MNJohnnie
(I do not forgive Senator John McCain for helping destroy everything we built since 1980.)
To: All; Mia T
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posted on
11/25/2006 3:43:36 PM PST
by
ALOHA RONNIE
("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com.)
To: Doe Eyes
Democracy Sux.
Perhaps but so does every other form of Govt currently know to humanity. Democracy may sux it just does it a whole lot less then every other choice.
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posted on
11/25/2006 3:43:59 PM PST
by
MNJohnnie
(I do not forgive Senator John McCain for helping destroy everything we built since 1980.)
To: chessplayer
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posted on
11/25/2006 3:46:48 PM PST
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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