IMPORTANT: Flashbacks of a lost cause

By H. D. S. Greenway | Tuesday, July 17, 2007 | The Boston Globe

The Iraqi civil war in which US troops are mired echoes the situation faced by British troops in Palestine during their 30-year presence there, starting just after World War I. Among the many striking similarities is the harsh truth that no foreign power can successfully win a long war to force compromise on combatants who have no interest in compromise…BS

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