by Stewart Nusbaumer

Common Dreams

01/04/05

The U.S. war planners underestimated the Iraqis' will to resist and they underestimated the insurgents' ability to develop a wartime strategy. After 'shock and awe' the resistance would surely be reduced to a 'rag-tag resistance,' right? The planners overestimated the U.S. military's technology and firepower, which they always do.

Twenty-one months into this war, the world's most powerful military is stymied, unable to halt the expanding Iraqis insurgency and the rising number of American dead. Those who planned this war knew as much about Iraq as those who planned the Vietnam War knew about Vietnam, which is why Iraq will end as Vietnam ended. In America's defeat...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp