GNN Editor's Note: GNN is proud to kick off a month of special Iraq coverage with an exclusive dispatch from Gert Van Langendonck, a veteran war correspondent and our newest contributor. Van Langendonck reports that U.S. troops facing fierce resistance from Saddam loyalists in the so-called Sunni Triangle are taking a page out of an old textbook, rewarding Iraqis who cooperate with them, and punishing those who shoot at them by destroying their houses and crops. It didn't work out very well in Vietnam, and it doesn't look like it's working out in occupied Iraq.
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