[Zhang Fei]

Perhaps they would have killed more had they faced up with us and fought us man-to-man...but one will never know - since they used children and women to carry out their attacks, plant their roadside IED’s, and used our sense of value towards LIFE - not DEATH - to kill the number of military and civilian personal security that they did...no, it’s not a head-scratcher...it’s an Islamic insurgency - that’s what they do...cowards using innocence to conduct their attacks.

And this was different from the way the Taliban operated?

[BCW]

the Taliban fought differently...yes, neither theater can be compared to each other. Highly different in the way attacks were carried out...the Taliban would crawl through freezing rain to get close to a US base to attack it...the Shia or Sunni in Iraq would use children to walk up to a check point and then blow that kid up remotely if need be...

The Taliban didn’t need to gain ground, they understood that persistent attacks would win out...whereas in Iraq, there were at least 3 competing forces vying for control of the region - or at least their respective region

By the way, which theater did you operate out of?