[GordonHall]

Originally Posted by Madmartagen

you cant really win unless you kill all the bad guys. there is probably an unlimited amount of recruits ready to fight americans, so digging in wont help. even if you manage to keep them out of iraq, that means they are still in iran, syria, lebanon, africa, etc. if we hole up in iraq with our troops, whos going to fight the ones that arent in iraq? face it dudes, our army's fucked.

This isn't like Vietnam where they enjoy a broad base of support in the country, letters have shown that Iraqi insurgents have become somewhat restless, some insurgents have even begun to fight foreign fighters.