And the fighting will continue. Every firefight will alienate more Iraquis and serve to inspire further attacks on foreign forces. If the Americans bring in overwhelming firepower (which they can) the Iraqui fighters will disperse, then attack in some other place where they can find a more vulnerable target. The Americans will then go and beat up on that other location, and the whole process will repeat itself again and again. Eventually the Americans will leave, as the British did once when they failed to occupy and hold Iraq.

This is what happens when you occupy a country against the will of its people, and you don't have enough troops and immigrants to totally outnumber and displace the indigenous population. It happened to the British and the Russians in Afghanistan too...at different times in history.

- LH