Insurgents Will Fight Us for 300 Years
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Editor:
I always remember Ho Chi Minh, the winning <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Vietnam general, saying, “We live here. We would have fought you for 300 years.”
The Vietnam Memorial with its 58,000 forlorn names is 150 yards long. If there were a memorial to the Vietnam dead of the same scale of writing etc, it would be nine miles long. We're not going to “beat” this insurgency in Iraq. There is no front line, no identifiable uniformed army to crush by might and determination. There are nine miles worth of IED (Improvised Explosive Devices) planters. Their young men suicide with cheap bombbelts. Ours with expensive Hummers and tanks. They'll die nine miles worth. They'll fight us for 300 years.
The Murtha Option of immediately re-deploying a quick-strike force to Kuwait and otherwise taking the fuel of Occupation out of their fire seems sensible.
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Van Creveld article discusses withdrawal from a military experts point of view. Van Creveld also wrote a fascinating article about Moshe Dayan's inquiry into Vietnam way back when and his shock at learning that no American leader had a credible plan to complete its objectives there.
the president keeps saying that the job is to eliminate terrorism. Sadly, that may take far longer than 300 years if he proposes to eliminate terrorists by blowing them and their families up.
Chancelucky & pog,
Cats which are much more intelligently designed predators than we will tell you that going up the damn tree (Think 'scamper') is ever so much easier than clambering or skidding or plummeting back down again.
The 288 million dollars a day could buy a lot of good will if it weren't punctuated by bullets.
Only people who lived through Vietnam have heard every word, every 'cut and run,' every 'when they stand up' plan before ad nauseam, — or much much more sadly ad death upon death.
Murtha said tonight (11.30/12.01) that the generals say in private that it would take 25 years to do what BushCo wants.
As you say, it's so easy to bust up the china. Then what? Blow everybody up as cl says until they are defeated. Especially blow up the families. One must remember that they're just collateral damage,