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Author(s)	Max Boot
Source	Los Angeles Times
Date	January 17, 2007
URL	http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-boot17jan17,0,5861419.column
Quote	"This is a classic counterinsurgency approach focused on securing the populace, and it has never really been tried before in the capital. It could work, especially if the surge is long lasting and if it's coupled with other vital steps — such as increasing the number of American advisors in the Iraqi security forces, instituting a biometric identity card to make it easier to detain terrorism suspects and enhancing the capacity of the Iraqi legal system to incarcerate more violent offenders."

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This item argues for the position United States should increase troop levels on the topic Post-invasion Iraq.