[bluebunny]

I don't agree with the strategy being used in "post-war" Iraq. We should be building up a guerilla-fighting force. This is not the job for conventional forces.

[AmericanInTokyo]

We can start by calling it by the official name. The "Guerilla War in Iraq". Conventional fighting is OVER. As you say. Hostilities have NOT ceased. It is a little Tet Offensive every day over there. We should be realists and give them the tools to finish the job. A Phoenix Program would be a good start in Tikrit, Fallujah, Saddam City and other areas still strongly favorable to the Ba'athists, who have gone underground like the Vietcong.

Cmon folks, we did this drill before in the Nam. Let's learn some lessons and take our experience and win it for a change.

[Bombard]

And what maked you think this force doesn't already exist??

[RobbyS]

I agree. This is a job for special forces, the equivalent of plain-clothes cops. They don't even have to have the language so long as they keep their mouths shut they can blend in. Remember "Four Feathers?"

[Coop]

We should be building up a guerilla-fighting force.

Those forces are already in place.