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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] No-win strategy in Tora Bora and Fallujah
  • Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:38:05 -0700


One only halfway competent Iraqi battalion, insufficient U. S. boots on the ground---no block to escape of Jihadists, who will pop up elsewhere, thanks to the Sandbox General in the White House who is the world's foremost expert in converting a winnable war in Iraq to defeat.

The Iraqi invasion may well finally convince we moderns that force has become ineffective as a tool for positive political change. How much force will be enough to "free" Iraq? One soldier/law enforcement person for every citizen? Every two? One for every ten? And would even that hold back the rage of those who feel they have no forum other than violence?

Viet Nam should have been the defining moment. For some, it was. For others, the lesson is not yet learned. I say the goal is oil control, but for the moment let us assume it is really about a democratic life for the majority of Iraqis. Do any people want a governing form forced on them? How would we react if China invaded us, declaring that our system was unjust and they would liberate us? How many of us would be doing exactly as the so-called terrorists are doing in Iraq? We would call ourselves patriots; the Chinese would call us terrorists.

I guess I missed the story of how the Iraqis wanted us to change their lives.






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