--- "J. van Baardwijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gary Nunn wrote: <snip> > > > >Why would the military think that the Iraqi > military would do anything > >different than if the US was invaded by foreign > soldiers? It would be > >nothing less than guerilla warfare - dirty tricks > and all. > > > >Of course it is easy for me to sit here and second > guess what the military > >is thinking, but from this side (or perhaps it is > the media spin) it looks > >like they were a bit over confident that the Iraqi > >people would roll over and give up. > > Looks like the US military made the classical > mistake that many military > leaders over the centuries have made before them > (and which many of them > would regret later): they underestimated the enemy.
<shaking head and grinning> Boys, boys, boys - you don't *honestly* think that the world's preeminent military leaders actually thought this would be a cakewalk, now did you? That those who experienced Viet Nam, Kosovo and Afghanistan thought this would be another Grenada? <not smiling at all> But some who have appointed, not elected, positions just might have tried to give that impression to a gullible and deliberately ignorant segment of the populace. Debbi whose former military strategist contact used the term "potentially disastrous" WRT a ground war in Iraq __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
