Monday, June 18, 2007

Insurgencies ...

I was gonna blog about this yesterday but Brother Lurch got to it and gives it the treatment it deserves:

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But GEN Petraeus’s response is quite interesting, because being in uniform and all, one might think he actually has studied this history thing that’s such a mystery down at the shallow end of the gene pool where the never-right seem to congregate.

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He goes on to detail a host of insurgencies that have 'cropped up' over the last few hundred years and how stopping them, usually unsuccessful, required methods the average American would not abide.

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