Well Duh!

Get to the part about kinetics....

This is despite the fact that over the past three years American and British troops have killed thousands of suspected insurgents. They have also detained more than 100,000 Iraqi men, most of them innocent, with only 15,000 still in custody. Such smash-and-grab tactics have clearly failed. “If you've applied the kinetics [Pentagon-speak for force] we've applied, and you still have a situation where attacks are up and there are so many bad guys, that's the best argument against applying kinetics,” says Lieut-General Peter Chiarelli, the commander of coalition forces in Iraq. “For every one we pick off the streets, we're creating one to take his place.”

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