Col. Gentile sees the Chimera of Victory
Listen to the Gentile:  ignore at your peril.  The colonel is sounding smarter and smarter.  I’ll follow him:
Contrary to much of what is written and said, victory is not near and the notion that the “surge†of troops was some great, decisive military action that set the stage for political reconciliation is a chimera.
It was a chimera for the French in Algeria that their bloody counterinsurgency there defeated Algerian nationalists.
