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Some food for thought
OK, it is pretty clear that there is now a self-sustaining guerrilla campaign against the US and the current US-appointed government. Generally, foreign powers have done poorly against guerrilla campaigns in developing countries - the only one I can think of won by the Europeans was the Boer war, where much of the war was between two colonial settler groups.
My question is, what are we going to do this time that is sufficiently different to change the odds for the outcome? What will we do that was not done in any of the wars lost by us and by European powers over the last 250 years?
The Bushies response the day they went in would have been, "We will be welcomed as liberators, so we don't have to worry about that, but if it comes up, the overwhelming speed of our attack and our ability to move light troops quickly will prevail." Obviously, that response has proven completely off-base.
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