Wednesday, June 04, 2008

"The subject of your war"

Here's a brief quote from an article called "Princess Patricia and the Taliban" By Eric Walberg:

“We do not believe in counterinsurgency,” a senior French commander, clearly recalling Vietnam and Algeria, told Saunders. “If you find yourself needing to use counterinsurgency, it means the entire population has become the subject of your war, and you either will have to stay there forever or you have lost.”

Something to think about.

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