THE "AMERICANIZATION" OF IRAQ...DEATH KNELL

I heard some commentary on Air America today that took me back to that "police action" in Vietnam so many years ago.
Here's a quote from the article being discussed:

Lieutenant General Peter Chiarelli, in a weekend training session with troops and in an interview afterward, said that he found a need to reemphasize to soldiers that they should use reasonable force and treat Iraqi culture with respect, in part because the insurgency has persisted and grown.

''We have to understand that the way we treat Iraqis has a direct effect on the number of insurgents that we are fighting," Chiarelli said after the seminar with about three dozen soldiers and Marines at Camp Taji, north of Baghdad. ''For every one that I kill, I create almost 10 more."

So...let me clarify, if, for nothing else but my own aching head. We have been in this country for three years, blowing the shit out of them and thier culture and now, by making nice and respecting thier culture the shit will cool down?
Please, Chiarelli, you, my friend, are fucking dreaming.
The damage is already done. The "insurgency" as you call it, isn't going away. No matter how nice we are to them after three years of being "not so nice".
Not to mention the civil war we have fostered...you might call it sectarian violence, in some degree that's accurate, but what's really going on are factions taking advantage of the chaos we have created to kill each other.

Here's a link to daily events in iraq:

Blow by blow

The French ( and the spanish before them ) failed in Vietnam, we failed as well. Why? They were first and foremost Vietnamese with a strong sense of nationalism.
We will not prevail in Iraq, sure, we might win, but at what cost to lives? And if we do win, it will be a hollow victory. And a dangerous one. Why? They are first and foremost Iraqi's with a strong sense of Islam, in a part of the world crawling with similar ideology...our cross to bear.

In short, we need to get the fuck out of there before 2400 plus casualties balloons to 58000 or more.
Especially if that idiot (which one?) in the white house nukes Iran.