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Entry: Intelligence Failure--Why America Can't Think Its Way Out of Iraq Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/intelligence_failure_why_america_cant_think_its_way_out_of_iraq#22487 Post contents: @ Cognate The difference between the American Indians and our protagonists in the Levant is a matter of numbers. After a few centuries of colonization , the North Americans had reduced.... inadvertently and purposefully.... the native population from millions to a few hundred thousand. An Assiniboine Chief went to visit the Great White Father Jackson and went back to his tribe and told them with resignation: "We should not kill the White Man any more, there are too many of them to kill all of them". This aint the case with the Muslims, including the Palestinians who now are either close to or outnumbering the Jewish population in Israel. It even concerns the gouty Arab leadership who are finding it increasingly difficult to control their disgruntled youth, brought up on foreign labor and tired of seeing the decadent princelings spend the wealth of the nation like drunken sailors. The only empire that works in the orient is one that adopts the customs of the locale and this Western Culture of ours is blind to anything but it's own image. Sent at: 2008 05 16