13,000-17,000 insurgents? Hardly.
The U.S. military faces between 13,000 and 17,000 insurgents in Iraq, the large majority of them backers of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and his Baath Party, a senior military official said Tuesday. But the Boston Globe, as well as many others, are aware that there are far, far more...
Crucially, we should end our counter-insurgency operations; this offensive is failing -- at least according to the Rumsfeldian metric of whether we are killing the insurgents faster than we are creating them. A year ago, intelligence officials estimated that there were 2,000 to 5,000 insurgents; today, according to the head of the Iraqi intelligence service, there are 30,000 hardcore fighters and 200,000 insurgents overall. What the hell.
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