Media accounts also routinely describe the fighting outside Falluja as a "rebel counteroffensive" that surprised the US military, implying that the reduction of Falluja merely created more insurgents. But the view conveyed by these headlines is myopic. The rebels can attack on a broad front for a while, but they will not be able to keep it up for long. What is going on in the Sunni Triangle is not so much a "rebel counteroffensive" as it is the last desperate gasp of a group running out of time and space. Drawing on lessons from World War II, this writer disputes the implication of my "Slog" poem. Two, Three, Many Fallujas | 
