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One Response to “DE BORCHGRAVE: Unwinnable insurgencies?”

1. ben stagg said:

   A very educational and non-emotive peice of writing.
   The message is simple: if you want to win anything from a sports match to a war, you have to be seriously committed. The section concerning Vietnam was particularly telling and also the peice about the new ‘democratic’ regime in Pakistan’s attitude to the Taliban and AQ. If America was serious about it’s war on AQ then it what was it doing encouraging the Bhutto mob back into Pakistan?
   These wars might have been ill-advised, but they were and the current one’s are winable.
   If anyone can see the merit in committing to hostilities and then after a few years of heavy expenditure in terms of both life, injured personel and finances, simply lack the drive to bring the matter to a conclusion, I cannot.
   I am talking now, not as someone who espouses any of these conflicts, but as someone who simply accepts what the consequences are when a nation enters into hostilites with another force.

   Posted on 31-Aug-08 at 11:25 am | Permalink