His statement is ample evidence that he is willing to call a failed tactic a failed tactic, and an unworkable strategy unworkable.

It has no bearing on your assertion he has failure as a goal, which I find to be wholly untrue. Contrariwise, it may be that the only path to success in the Middle East will have to start by noticing strategies which don't work and doing something different.

Don't get me wrong. I would be delighted if those sub-cultures in Iraq who have the will and the arms and the recruits to go blow up their fellow man in bursts of fanatic glory would take down their tents and sneak off into the night. But I have seen no evidence, really, that the current military strategy does anything to defuse their motivation, deny their logistics, or demoralize their recruits. This convinces me that our strategies of "kill them" are probably not the optimum solution to the problem.

For some people, "kill them" is the ONLY solultion they can imagine.

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