Seems tome that GWB is making the same mistake Lyndon Johnson did. Creeping incrementalism. The way to defeat a guerrilla insurgency is not though small percentage increases but an overwhelming force that crushes the enemies will to fight.
20,000 additional troops is a gesture not a stategy. By our own tactical doctrine we need 300-350 K troops on the ground to win.
We are not fighting their will, but them. They are fighting agaist our will with their allies the ACLU and the MSM. The way to win is to crush them - kill them.
Islam does not think like westerners, the faithful are more than willing to die - (I say we accommodate them). Most just will submit to the biggest bully around, because Islam is not about the authentic condition of the heart (as in "love God with all your heart, all your soul, all your might and all your mind...Love your neighbor as your self")but outward submission only.
If we really want to win, we will crush the faithful jihadists and send missionaries to re-educate and evangelize them. But then we would also have to crush the ACLU.
But as long as the ACLU has any legitimacy - it will be our will to win is what will be crushed.