The next HBO/Spielberg/Hanks WW2 miniseries is a go...

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Originally Posted by Red October1984

That war lasted entirely too long. But how do you effectively fight an insurgency quickly without help from the native government?

Wrong question. The real question is why it even got started in 2003. The answer is plans that were made already one decade earlier, and that nothing to do with terror, claims of WMD or anything.

The insurgency had to be expected, and some warning voices even predicted right what then came. If you have no answer to how to defeat it, then you have even one reason more not to start a war.