Why we are losing in Iraq Part 1

In a sense the United States Army is making the same mistakes it made in VietNam, we've had military leaders and political leaders e.g. President Bush tell us we've gotton over VietNam but we havent learned shit. Thus the problem we have in Iraq. In a sense its like the Talleyrand quote used to describe the Bourbons 'THEY have learnt nothing; and forgotten nothing,’ and fits the US Army like a glove. However the Marine Corps developed the Small Wars Manual based on the experience of the Banana wars 1919-1939 and the Combined Action Program (CAP). that by all accounts of historians did well until killed by politics?

Its a matter of reading Sun Tzu. Clausewitz and Mao as a start to see that while the US Army is playing the "GAME" with the Iraq Insurgents, chasing them all over the insurgents through terrorism have coopted the indifference of the maajority of the people who see the United States inability to bring peace and stability as a sign that the insurgents will win. Obviously the Iraqi insurgents have read thier Mao but unlike the US Army they comprehend "The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea." Where as the US Army is fighting the war of the flea in the role of the dog. "Analogically, the guerrilla fights the war of the flea, and his military enemy suffers the dog’s disadvantages: too much to defend; too small, ubiquitous,
and agile an enemy to come to grips with. If the war continues long enough—this is the theory—the dog succumbs to exhaustion and anemia without ever having found anything on which to close its jaws or to rake with its claws. Robert Taber.

So whats wrong and why are we as a nation repeating the wrong things and unable to repeat the right? A good example of successful conterinsurgency is the Philippine-American War, AKA the Philippine-Insurrection. Part 1 against the Catholic Filipenos and Part 2 against the Moros, Islamic Filipenos. Thus leading this writer to say Americas first Asian war of insurgncy of the 20th Century and the first clash against Muslims in the 20th Century. However our armed forces fell into love with technology and forgot its not high technology toys that determine victory but the men behind them. Or as Ho Chi Minh said to the French, late 1940s
You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours, but even at those odds, you will lose and I will win. Later on the United States attempted to win the "War of Attrition" and to bomb the VietNamese into the stone age and failed miserably. It is estimated the United States dropped three times the amount of bombs that were dropped by all parties in World War 2 on VietNam but in the end we lost our political will and the North Vietnamese took Saigon 30 April 1975 as the United States evacuated the Embassy, litterly one step ahead of the invaiding North Vietnamese.