Billmon: Getting the Boot

Lest we build up the enemy into 10-foot-tall supermen, it's important to realize how weak they actually are. Most of the conditions that existed in previous wars won by guerrillas, from Algeria in the 1950s to Afghanistan in the 1980s, aren't present in Iraq.

Max Boot
Why the Rebels Will Lose
June 23, 2005

I think it is worth emphasizing that these guys lack the two classical ingredients of a victory in a so-called guerilla war if that's what you want to say they're conducting. They lack the sympathy of the population and they lack any serious source of external support.

Paul Wolfowitz
Washington Post interview
June 26, 2003

Leave it to Max "pukka sahib" Boot to recycle Paul Wolfowitz's two-year-old talking points and present them as some kind of evidence of his counterinsurgency expertise. Just once, can't these fucking neocons find an original way to be wrong?