Max Boot (CFR) thinks US can win guerrilla war - he's confused

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/weekinreview/06BOOT.html

Did anyone read this crazy article in the New York Times?

Boot thinks that the US won in the Phillipines (and El Salvador), and that they lost in Vietnam because they didn't apply the rules used in Phillipines. He says the US should apply these rules in Iraq. (One of these rules is that the US needs to recruit the locals to fight each other -- so, it looks like whomever bombed that Iraqi police unit graduation is reading the same rule book).

Although Boot think the US won in the Phillipines, apparently the person who captioned the photograph in the article is less sure. He or she says there was a debate over whether it was a victory or an outrage. And Boot cites enough facts (including, over 200,000 civilians dead, the Water Torture) to make you wonder what Boot considers success.

Hey Max...Shut the fuck up!

Bush will be remembered the same way. The same foriegn policy(imperialism) and the same domestic policy(crony capitalism). As for the Philipines, it was a pro-American dictatorship until Corisone Aquino was elected. It really puts the lie to the notion that we are trying extablish a democracy in Iraq, if he wants us to follow their example. He also failed to mention on the civlilians that died in the contra wars. He just wants us to install Chalabi and co. A gang of con artist and theives. I think they are the ones that did the most thieving of Iraqi artifacts, and I am not sure I believe the reduced inventory of theft that has come out lately.

by that anarchist immigrant in Buffalo, and if anti-McKinley TR hadn't been president, McKinley would have completed the transition of America into the laissez faire Ayn Randian paradise they imagine America should be.

at getting his agenda passed.

this guy is VERY uneducated. i read some of his articles when they appeared in the la times. total moron. and i think he is a chickenhawk also.

He couldn't be scared. Could he?

Don

a pencil-on-paper thingy?

...I refer to an article, and when you compose your message, you can chose from a series of icon -- I chose the one for posts with articles.