> Sam wrote: > Let's think back to WWII again and use your philosophy. > We'd be dead. >
The summary of your point is that you think it's possible to win an urban "combatant" war. I don't. We'll find out who's right. As I pointed out for Iraq - 95% of the people killing Americans are Iraqis. Translation: We are in the middle of a civil war. We will not "win" that war. This was the lesson of Vietnam that you and McNamara apparently never learned. There's just too many of these examples to cite, but the better question is can you cite a single modern urban war that was won? No, because there aren't any. Not Vietnam, not the first invasion of Lebanon, it won't happen in Iraq, and it won't happen for Israel now. The mistake you and others are making are in forgetting that, for example, in WWII the only way either VE day occurred was because we decided to bomb civilians. That is, we used the kill-everyone strategy. Which is why I've said - if we want to win in Iraq or Lebanon we can do it 2 ways: kill everyone, or find a diplomatic solution. The but-they-started-it-and-they're-the-bad-guys talk is romantic and emotional, and therefore totally impractical. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:212011 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
