Yes that is one of the great things about this 'new' mechanized/armored/motorized warfare placed in situation where there are active insurgency. Sometimes bringing the biggest beast and largest weapons to bear only create more problem that even the best diplomats won't be able to fix for years. Especially when you can only expect to do so much when you don't secure all of the borders of a nation that you have occupied. Now only if the same lessons would of been applied to both places we would be much further ahead in both locations. Then again if we had finished nation building in one location before doing else where......
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