Another Word About Iraq

++We remember Shock and Awe but we forget the inspiration behind our counterinsurgency efforts. The prime reading material for the W Administration was Alistair Horne's work on Algeria. The French campaign against the Algerian nationalists was the model for our efforts against the so-called "dead-enders" in Iraq.

++Great work and books by Horne but no one mentioned the rather obvious point--The French lost that campaign and Algeria became independent. But then again we have Freedom Fries.