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A realistic answer.
Reader comment on item: Must Counterinsurgency Wars Fail?
Submitted by Anne-Marie Delcambre (France), Sep 14, 2008 at 07:26
" Counterinsurgency wars are winnable, but they have their own imperatives, ones very distinct from those of conventional warfare."
I believe Daniel Pipes to be right. Victory over insurgencies is possible if counterterrorist operations are followed. He calls the result "sufficient control", requiring the investment of continuous effort to preserve "repressed quiet".
I would call that : "a realistic answer". Force is not the answer and Daniel Pipes finds a way of making the area safe. A state fighting a nonstate enemy , the state is not doomed to fail !
Counterinsurgency can win !
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| This is a Truth Regarding the Insurgencies [557 words] | M. Tovey | Oct 7, 2008 19:44 | 139699 | ||
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| Misdirected Comments Cannot Hide the Truth - the Provocation is Already There [655 words] | M. Tovey | Oct 13, 2008 19:02 | 139699 | ||
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| Re: Misdirected comments [2843 words] | Nura | Oct 16, 2008 19:00 | 139699 | ||
| The Righteous Branch - Yeshua HaMashiach [325 words] | M. Tovey | Oct 20, 2008 12:02 | 139699 | ||
| No truth!!! [180 words] | Mansoor | Oct 1, 2008 22:45 | 139447 | ||
| Ask Jesus to save you ... [37 words] | PDM | Oct 3, 2008 19:59 | 139447 | ||
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| Mansoor, the fools pond [39 words] | Infidel | Oct 5, 2008 15:08 | 139447 | ||
| Turning the table!! [117 words] | Mansoor | Oct 6, 2008 08:01 | 139447 | ||
| I am happy!! [10 words] | Mansoor | Oct 6, 2008 08:04 | 139447 | ||
| Mansoor in Pakistan [119 words] | Kafir911 | Oct 7, 2008 09:56 | 139447 | ||
| Drama unfolds!!! [230 words] | Mansoor | Oct 7, 2008 23:53 | 139447 | ||
| no comment [134 words] | real | Jan 15, 2009 16:39 | 139447 | ||
| legitimacy wins such a war [211 words] | the libertine | Oct 1, 2008 17:48 | 139430 | ||
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| Re Must counterinsurgencies wars fail [124 words] | Gabby (from Australia) | Sep 23, 2008 00:48 | 139046 | ||
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| Joe 36-Pack [52 words] | adnan khan | Oct 5, 2008 00:08 | 138856 | ||
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| Take Knowledge in the Truth of Why People Hate the United States - [574 words] | M. Tovey | Sep 29, 2008 13:36 | 138682 | ||
| Jenn- Talibans are winning? What in the h--- [747 words] | ah ha | Oct 6, 2008 00:11 | 138682 | ||
| God gives time but never neglects [95 words] | sTs | Oct 17, 2008 16:30 | 138682 | ||
| Samer is back: and Allah created the mountains as a protection against earth quakes! really? [177 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 18, 2008 08:51 | 138682 | ||
| Faith in Yeshua HaMashiach Prepares the Believer for Eternity, and All the Time One Wants with His Savior [89 words] | M. Tovey | Oct 20, 2008 12:31 | 138682 | ||
| We believe in the unseen [174 words] | sTs | Oct 21, 2008 06:22 | 138682 | ||
| Worship Of Almighty God is Worshipped in Spirit and in Truth - Holy Bible is Written Evidence of the Truth in Yeshua HaMashiach [645 words] | M. Tovey | Oct 22, 2008 14:19 | 138682 | ||
| rituals of Hajj [1116 words] | sTs | Oct 28, 2008 02:52 | 138682 | ||
| 1 | Understanding the Holy Bible is an Act of Faith Necessary to Understand its Truths [1192 words] | M. Tovey | Oct 29, 2008 18:27 | 138682 | |
| Great resource for passages [13 words] | BRandy F. Brooks | Mar 20, 2010 01:11 | 138682 | ||
| The Hebrew Holy Bible is the ONLY Resource for These Difficult Times. [108 words] | M. Tovey | Mar 22, 2010 11:15 | 138682 | ||
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| Managing between winning and losing [106 words] | Jay | Sep 16, 2008 05:27 | 138660 | ||
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| Must counterinsurgency wars fail [185 words] | kim segar | Sep 15, 2008 13:29 | 138633 | ||
| counter insurgency? [152 words] | trans-parere | Sep 15, 2008 11:06 | 138620 | ||
| Not with a sword [163 words] | michael | Sep 15, 2008 09:31 | 138617 | ||
| To win or to loose, a question of objectives. [177 words] | Jon, a Brit in Euroland | Sep 15, 2008 08:42 | 138615 | ||
| Victory against insurgents [116 words] | Rafi | Sep 15, 2008 06:25 | 138608 | ||
| Economical way to beat terror. [119 words] | Radovan | Sep 14, 2008 23:32 | 138588 | ||
| different and clever ways to beat Terror [174 words] | Radovan | Sep 14, 2008 23:13 | 138584 | ||
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| Very Interesting Question for Dr. Pipes [195 words] | Alex | Sep 14, 2008 22:16 | 138577 | ||
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| Sleuths, Poets, Boots and Persistence [596 words] | J. S. Oppenheim | Sep 15, 2008 09:47 | 138564 | ||
| Much simpler [155 words] | Stuart Teich | Sep 14, 2008 17:08 | 138562 | ||
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| Ahmed: Thanks but NO thanks [13 words] | Khan Bulzar | Sep 21, 2008 17:39 | 138546 | ||
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