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Originally posted by Big Monkie
I was going to be nice, but this is gfy so wtf. I think we need to end this thread here because you are really embarrassing yourself.
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I am flattered by your concern.
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Did you read this thread at all? Evidently the entire concept is difficult for you to grasp, so here it is again briefly;
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Yes. The concept is not beyond my grasp, thank you very much.
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its about how even if you have vast military superiority its a much taller order to defeat the entire population.
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I think that is clear to most people, including myself, and have stated in multiple posts that taking military control is the easy part, winning the peace is the difficult part. Pay attention please.
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The vietnam conflict would never have been "ended" by military force, because large numbers of their people believed they were right and roughly half or more of ours didnt. Its called nationalism. We couldnt even outlast them on the battlefield, and the battlefield/military aspect is the easy part for us.
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I stated the reasons why the conflict, virtually at any time during the years that we were militarily engaged, could have been ended and they are all valid, period.
It can be and often is, but we have had some success at this (Germany/Japan).
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Now, we are invading and occuppying a country that never attacked or even threatened us. This wasnt true for japan or germany, we were attacked and had the definite moral high ground. Every iraqi that is killed now just makes for more hatred and fuels resolve to strike back at us however they can.
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You are correct, some will hate us untill hell freezes over and some of those will act upon their hatred. Around 25,000 people are murded in the USA every year. I seriously doubt that "Iraqi resistence/terrorists" will achieve this level of American deaths annually, but what ever the number becomes we will just have to deal with it.
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The only way the military can bring this "to a swift end" is to kill the entire population, which cannot be done for obvious political reasons.
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Wrong, we did not kill the entire population of any country that we have militarily engaged and yet those wars have ended, but I do agree that if the USA was not and is not willing to wage war as it must be waged, this current conflict can go south just as the Vietnam conflict did, because of micro management of the military for political reasons.
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Or perhaps they can get the propaganda cranked up and convince all those relatives and friends of dead iraqis that everything is ok. But it aint about management of military force. Get it?
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The success or failure of this current military campaign is all about micro management of our military forces, for political reasons.