Actually it's not that new. Remember in Vietnam we'd send a company out
into the jungle as bait so the NVA/VC would attack it and then we'd whack
the NVA/VC with artillery and airpower? Producing the counter-stratefy
"Grab the enemy by the belt buckle".

Well now the strategy is to put an american army into Iraq as bait and hope
Al-queda will attack.