History Repeating Itself

Glenn Greenwald writes about the folly of our Afghanistan policy, with the kind of logic that escapes the liberal hawks advising Obama:

How long are we going to continue to do this? We invade and
occupy a country, and then label as "insurgents" or
even "terrorists" the people in that country who fight against our
invasion and occupation. With the most circular logic imaginable, we then
insist that we must remain in order to defeat the "insurgents" and
"terrorists" -- largely composed of people whose only cause for fighting is our
presence in their country. All the while, we clearly exacerbate the very
problem we are allegedly attempting to address -- Terrorism -- by predictably
and inevitably increasing anti-American anger and hatred through our occupation,
which, no matter the strategy, inevitably entails our killing innocent
civilians. Indeed, does Hoh's description of what drives the insurgency --
anger "against the presence of foreign soldiers" -- permit the conclusion
that that's all going to be placated with a shift to a kind and gentle
counter-insurgency strategy?