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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Go in heavy to what end? We don't have enough troops there to properly occupy the area, even if our political leadership was willing to take the heat for the casualties that would result. We cannot occupy Iraq with the troops we have there, and the Iraqi forces cannot take up the slack, so we're stuck letting part of the country be controlled by insurgents.
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We don't necessarily have to occupy the area. We do have to go house-to-house, seize any weapons and ammunition, kill or arrest any combatants, and route out any communications or strategic assets the insurgents have.
If that means more troops, then so be it. The plain and simple fact is that we have to commit to being there or we have to leave. We cannot accept letting insurgents control part of the country or we'll be at a stalemate indefinitely.
