With the battle in Fallujah still raging, the guest editorial by William R. Polk on Juan Cole’s blog is an even more important read than when it was first published.
An excerpt:
“staying the course” … means continued fighting. France “stayed the course†in Algeria in the 1950s as America did in Vietnam in the 1960s and as the Israelis are now doing in occupied Palestine. It has never worked anywhere.
He notes, a paragraph down or so, that there are many examples of the longterm failure of this policy option, in many cases lasting generations… Ireland, Algeria, Chechnya, etc.
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