The battle for the White House is over and, less than a week afterwards, the battle for Fallujah is joined. There may not be a direct correlation between the two events (the attack on the "insurgents" has been threatened...with increasing bravado and promises of overwhelming force...for quite some weeks now) but the timing, nevertheless, is...interesting.
At some point, the US government and military is going to have acknowledge the fact that rebelling Iraqis...and those drawn to the region because of the US occupation...are never going to be completely crushed no matter how many bombs and bullets you lob at them...no matter how many widows and orphans you create...no matter how many more avengers you give birth to by creating martyrs ( after all is said and done, one man's "terrorist" is another man's "freedom fighter"...it all depends on your perspective.)
We can impose "democracy" and set up a US-friendly Iraqi government but a true peace is long, long ways off. We are mired down in Iraq and we probably will be for some time to come...and the battle for Fallujah will do little to change that.
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