Beginning of the End?

The struggle to control/pacify Iraq has never been about a majority of the Iraqi people. Historians estimate that during the American Revolution one third of the populace was supportive of the revolution, one third remained loyal to the King and the other third just tried to stay out of the way. Using that same ratio with a population in Iraq of approximately 26 million people and the numbers become very chilling indeed.

The United States, a nation which has long, and rightfully so, taken great pride in its track record as a liberator from tyranny, is now in the eminently unenviable position of trying to suppress a nationwide insurrection waged against it as the foreign occupying power. This is something that we have tried only a few times in our history. And we all know how it turned the last time we were so blinded by hubris to put ourselves in a similarly wretched position.