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Patrick Lang, former DIA chief of Middle East operations, suggests that "In its eagerness to hunt down and destroy terrorist insurgents, the U.S. Army and Marines have apparently overlooked the fact that the top goal of any war against an insurgency is protection of the population." Former CIA counterterrorism chief, Vince Cannistraro, adds that "Things are absolutely terrible. The insurgency is growing and spreading, and its ability to coordinate operations, the growing sophistication of those operations places us in a disaster of unprecedented proportion." |
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