Counterinsurgency

I'm reading Maddow's book DRIFT, which I assume will be the topic she discusses tonight. Good book on how the Constitution gets ignored and Presidents start wars without Congress. One thing really struck me. She commented on the brilliant Gen. Petraeus's counterinsurgency program. 

"There are no examples in modern history in which a counterinsurgency in a foreign country has been successful." Oops, Gen Petraeus. But never mind. . . .