Viewed from Iraq at the tail end of a 15-month deployment, the political debate in Washington is indeed surreal. Counterinsurgency is, by definition, a competition between insurgents and counterinsurgents for the control and support of a population. Full Story »
Posted by Leo Romero
interesting journalism...but it fits the meme of the NYT...would 7 soldiers who supported the effort have had the chance to get such prime space? Doubt it...also, how many of you have really read the last graphs of both pages? Not sufficient lethal force...and they are in it to win...the real story is that the soliders want the freedom to prosecute the war as SOLDIERS, not as political footballs.
