"An Insurgency Within A Civil War"

by: thomashooker

Tue Aug 07, 2007 at 20:05:18 PM EDT

The war that I faced was an insurgency within a civil war. I wish it had been the other way around. Had it been a civil war within an insurgency, the extremes could have been targeted and controlled and the large center of the people moved toward local compromise.

The war is pointless.  The troops know it; their commanders know it; the folks back home know it.  But how much do you wanna bet that Chris Shays comes back from his current trip to the Middle East spewing another pile of mindless drivel about how "we're making progress" and that "we need to give the surge a chance" and other typically vacuous Shaysian double-talk?