Waving toward Victory. It is all over. An enterprising US commander in Iraq stumbles on the solution to America's problem in the Middle East: "As he met recently with U.S. Marines at several locations across the sprawling Al Anbar province, Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis explained what he termed "wave tactics" to combat the Sunni Arab insurgency in its longtime stronghold." If only the French waved to Algerian revolutionaries, France would have stayed in Algeria.