“The Palin Doctrine suggests bomb, baby, bomb, which is simplistic and inadequate. Much better to make oil go away.”

First it suggests “bomb, baby, Bomb. Only to the Left. It does leave bombing as an option. The left doesn’t see it as an option and so you guys are trying to portray it as the only option. That isn’t so and I seriously doubt that Sara said or meant it that way.
As far as OIL. It is never going away. Period. Even if we stop using it as fuel and the basis of Western civilization, we will still need it for Chemistry.
Your Electric vehicle might not burn hydrocarbons but it CANNOT be manufactured without them.

Guerrilla (small war) is the second oldest form of warfare. About 5 minutes after the first army defeated another army, the defeated army took to the hills and started Guerrilla. One of the Oldest bits of wrrting translated is clay tablets dating from 3500 BC. In it the King is complaing about a defeated army attacking his supply lines at night. They weren’t fighting fair. Guerrilla.
The Authoritative manual on the subject was written by a Major Caldwell in or about 1890. Everything since then has been a study of how new technologies applied to Caldwell’s “Small Wars”.
The techniques in “Small Wars’ work. They wouldn’t be there if they didn’t. COIN borrows from “Small wars” with one major difference. In “Small Wars” the first and most important step is determining what sort of Guerrilla you are fighting. COIN treats them ALL the same. I guess when all you have is a hammer, all problems start to look like nails.
This administration is about to make a really critical mistake. Islamic terrorism is on the run. The verge of defeat. So do we pursue and turn defeat into rout, rout into slaughter? Or do we show mercy and prepare for the next round? If we don’t pursue, there WILL be a next round. When in pursuit, you don’t stop until they are ALL slaughtered. THAT is what needs to be debated. COIN or KILL?