Silent victories
Tony Blankley:
On the foreign front, the strategic victory over insurgency warfare has to change the calculation of all our potential adversaries from Iran to Venezuela. These states have planned their opposition to the US based on a theory that they could outlast us in an insurgent war of attrition. If we stick it out, we will have a better chance of avoiding the necessity of the use of force against them in the future. Those are part of the stakes beyond the defeat of a wicked enemy like al Qaeda.
Quoted material removed. You may read the original at the link above.The most important aspect of this victory is one that is hardly ever mentioned outside this blog. We are achieving a strategic victory over insurgency warfare. This is huge. It has been a policy point for Democrats for nearly 50 years that insurgency warfare equals a quagmire we can't win. That is why many of them are still desperate for defeat in Iraq despite our victories. They need the invalid assumption in their quiver is use as an argument against the sue of force in the future. Without it they are intellectually disarmed.
On the foreign front, the strategic victory over insurgency warfare has to change the calculation of all our potential adversaries from Iran to Venezuela. These states have planned their opposition to the US based on a theory that they could outlast us in an insurgent war of attrition. If we stick it out, we will have a better chance of avoiding the necessity of the use of force against them in the future. Those are part of the stakes beyond the defeat of a wicked enemy like al Qaeda.
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