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...it is not dependent on logistical routes, supply chains, industries or natural resources it needs to keep on fighting which we can take out to crippled them.

This would mean that the enemy is resupplied with men and material from thin air. I suggest that the best use of troops would be to seal off the boarder between Iraq and Iran, Syria and Iraq. How? By declaring a no-travel zone 5 miles wide along each. Any plane, train, or automobile that crosses into either zone is destroyed. As proof, I would order bombing runs up and down the five-mile no-travel zone for the first month to clear the zone of any obstacles that make motion difficult to detect. Tell Iran and Syria that Iraq is not interested in trade of any sort, not even bananas, nothing. Nothing crosses the boarder. The enemy forces within Iraq would suffocate within six months. I am just disappointed that the same intelligence services that cannot find Bin Laden cannot seem to find the large cache of weapons the enemy is drawing upon to construct IEDs, etc.

The problem with your scenario is Iraq's economy would collapse. If nothing can get in, then nothing would get out either and Iraq would not be able to trade with their neighbors. And in the end the terrorists would just move stuff across the large swaths of unguarded desert that we simply don't have enough troops to guard either in the east or west. So in the end, really my statement is still correct. I really doubt much of the material supplying the terrorists is coming across the border checkpoints where guards search most vehiles anyway. Much of it comes from the huge weapons caches that Saddam hid throughout Iraq before his fall. Iraq was basically one big weapons dump.

This is what largely supplies the terrorists with some incidental amount of arms and weapondry coming across. The biggest issue with the borders are the people crossing them to come in to man the terrorist forces. That is difficult to control since as I say most of these people just dress as civilians anyway.

If we want better control of the men getting in to help keep the insurgency going, then we have to go after the Syrian and Iranian govts. to motivate them to stop the influx of foreign nationals into their territory that are intending to pass into Iraq, whatever form that pressure may take.