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paleotn

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36. That's what it took in Iraq to end the insurgency....

Reply to RandySF (Reply #28)

Sun May 24, 2026, 04:37 PM

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"The Surge" was a cover for just buying off the Sunni sheiks and having them turn on the insurgents. Way cheaper in treasure and blood. Turned out, Petraeus had the best plan for getting us out of THAT mess. We could have done the same with the Taliban and avoided 20 years of fruitless war. They weren't unreasonable. It was only a matter of zeros. As it turned out, Bin Laden was the most expensive wanted man in human history.

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