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• Even if it wasn't clear enough back when he assembled his "team of rivals" and welcomed Wall Street into his administration, it has been absolutely clear at least since he capitulated to "counterinsurgent" generals and their civilian enablers, and to health care profiteers, that, whatever he may think and feel "inside," Obama is not one of the "good guys. Andrew Levine: Obama Winter and How to Combat It
• Put briefly, the rigorous econometric analysis undertaken by these four scholars led them to conclude that "to the extent that counterinsurgent forces engage in unpopular and aggressive operations that generate specific local grievances, they are likely to facilitate increased recruitment and support for insurgent groups. Jay Mandle: War Does Not Promote Democracy
• Obama is best described as a foundation-bred counterinsurgent, that is to say an operative in the service of the US financier ruling class whose task it is to wreck and abort any positive outcomes that might be forthcoming from the political ferment which is shaking the globe, and above all from the deep political upsurge which is clearly at hand in this country. Wax Banks
• But what is the counterinsurgent to do, given that in an era of total war as waged by radical Islamists, distinguishing between combatant and noncombatant is often impossible? Man Versus Afghanistan
• The guiding principle of a spreading-oil-stain approach is that it allows the counterinsurgent force to concentrate in part of the country and then slowly pacify the rest, using time to substitute for numbers. The Right Way
• It means preventing insurgents from killing, injuring, and intimidating the local population or preventing them from supporting the government supported by the counterinsurgent. Derrick Crowe: Petraeus and Co. Can't Keep Their Spin Straight on the Afghanistan War
• The problem for counterinsurgents and counterterrorists is to apply theory to distinguish between lawful or unlawful forms of discontent.
• Divide the insurgents from the greater pool of potential insurgents: those who can be persuaded to join the insurgency — or, to go a step further, those who can be either persuaded or coerced into not bandwagoning with the counterinsurgent force. The Last Shall Be The First Tonight | ATTACKERMAN
• Glenn Beck and much of the mainstream media flattered itself that the One Nation Working Together Rally in Washington D.C. was staged as an answer, no a reaction, to Beck's phony counterinsurgent, badly misnamed Restoring Honor rally that insulted the name, memory and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Earl Ofari Hutchinson: One Nation Working Together Rally Magnificent, Now What?