http://informedspeculation.com/2007/03/04/into-sadr-city/ Refunds Cheerfully Given To All Who Disagree Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://informedspeculation.com/2007/03/04/into-sadr-city/comment-page-1/#comment-252823 too many steves Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:22:56 +0000 http://decision08.net/2007/03/04/into-sadr-city/#comment-252823 Thus the "laying low" tactic is risky as the longer it is employed the more it has the potential to undermine the insurgents and embolden the rest of Iraq to keep it supressed. Another reason why the surge cannot be a two or three month campaign - the increase in security and activity must outlast the insurgents ability to lay low. Once they see whatever support they have eroding they will emerge from their hidey-holes. We must be there when they do. Thus the “laying low” tactic is risky as the longer it is employed the more it has the potential to undermine the insurgents and embolden the rest of Iraq to keep it supressed. Another reason why the surge cannot be a two or three month campaign – the increase in security and activity must outlast the insurgents ability to lay low. Once they see whatever support they have eroding they will emerge from their hidey-holes. We must be there when they do.

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