Man, there's a country where they have great tactics to prevent suicide bombings
By Joe Campbell
March 7th, 2008
Yglesias on the difficulty in coming up with effective policies for Iraq's problems:
...there's really nothing we can do to stop sporadic bombing attacks. It's not, after all, that you look at Italy and say "man, there's a country where they have great tactics to prevent suicide bombings - Iraq should really implement those." Rather, you don't see suicide bombing where you don't see would-be suicide bombers and that's not the kind of outcome a foreign military force can produce in Iraq. So things will probably get worse again, but not as bad as they were at the very worst times.
I think that about sums up where we are - and what we can accomplish. I understand that Mr. McCain's answer to this problem is a century of occupation - if that's what it takes.
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