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Originally posted by evl4fun
I dunno, I'm not a war expert. Considering that it is now an occupation and not an all out war, it shouldn't take a week to get a few parts from one part of the country to another. They coulda fed-ex'ed the shit from the states in less time then that.
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I agree that the occupation is messy- certainly more difficult than planned for. The daily bombings and assassinations are just that. Historically, exceptionally quick military victories lead to difficult occupations. The Phillipines during the Spanish-American War, Yugoslavia during World War II. Lightning quick victories leave millions of rounds of unused munitions in the field and leave an enemy not having felt their defeat. This has happened many times.
People like "Joe Citizen" believe the US military is omnipotent and that anything short of perfection is due to poor planning. They felt triumphant when a single American Apache was downed in the early stages of the war - as if the expectation was zero - as if the US military were gods. The truth is quite different. 150,000 troops are occupying a country of 25 million Muslims after a historic and lightning quick blitzkrieg to occupy a nation's capital. The US military is great but not perfect.