Based on what evidence is it fact?
I think the US has a very poor record in counter insurgency. Gates is just having a paddy because the rest of us wont bomb weddings.
Also just seen The Simpsons. It was mind blowingly awesome. I didnt stop laughing. But I was the only one in the cinema to shout back 'bye Doctor Nick' at the end. 'Spider pig, spider pig...'
So therefore you are arguing that the Bush administration got it completely wrong by trying to keep the army in Iraq to do other things. Having beaten the Iraqi army it should have withdrawn immediately to collect its medals?
It is just a coping strategy to help Americans separate the success which they support from the failure which they are against. It enables them to say without damage to their patriotic pride that they totally agree with aspect of the war that they won and totally oppose the aspect of the war...
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