[Beetle01]

With all due respect, I am merely suggesting what David Petraeus has suggested elsewhere. If 10% of one million people are fighting us, that's 100,000. If that 100,000 keeps fighting (and they will), no white flag will be raised. The Russians won but couldn't win, won every battle, couldn't end the war. This is what I am suggesting: we win all the battles, but we cannot end the war because no white flag, no Malta Conference is going to happen.

Yes but the Russinas were fighting the Afghans. We have the backing of the vast majority of Iraqi's. That is what makes the difference. I guess if the Nazi's or Japanese would have never surrendered we should have just packed it up and came home. The nazi's and Japs were as radical if not more than these Islamic terrorists who have to resort to promising to pay the families of their martyrs to get them to do anything. This is why I do not believe their will is as strong as you believe. The one guy caught in Mumbai verifies this. While I'm sure there are a select few who do it on the basis of their religion, most do it so that their family is taken care of. Once it becomes evident, when Iraq becomes a true free nation that we are not out there to wipe away the history of these people or their way of life, you will see a sudden change in the willingness of these people to fight against us. Sure some bad things have happened, some Americans have done some terrible things themselves. However, we too often let a select few events change our percpetion on the whole picture