This is a widely shared attitude and explains why America can never really win a counter-insurgency war except under the most favorable of circumstances (where the guerrillas are genuinely weak & isolated from the population).https://twitter.com/AndrewCMcCarthy/status/1076847224653578240 …
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Serious question--Would the result of the Civil War have been different had the South engaged in a counterinsurgency campaign rather than fight a conventional war?
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Replying to @BruceBartlett @HeerJeet
I think you can argue that they *did* fight a successful insurgency, it just happened after the end of the Civil War proper.
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Replying to @Samuel_I @BruceBartlett
exactly. The real Southern insurgency started with Reconstruction & the Klan. And white Southerners won.
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