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-Caveat Lector- Tim Freeborn has been checking my history books and have found uncanny
parallels between the Iraqi war and the Boer war:
1) An Imperial power, apparently at its zenith, but in fact
in serious relative economic decline.
2) Huge international opposition.
3) Struggle for control of key resources: gold, oil.
4) Fairly early conventional victory followed by massively
expensive guerrilla campaign lasting two years.
The London market rocketed when war was declared in 1899.
Then, interest rates went up as government borrowing
soared. Equities fell on early defeats...and then generally
suffered with the economy. In the end, Britain did win, but
its economic performance in the following decade was poor.
(and many of the same characters are involved -Anglo imperialists and Jewish supremacists)
*** "I don't like the way this war is going," said Col.
Aubray, after Sunday's mass. Rare among the French, the old
soldier seems sympathetic to Bush's war. But it brings back
bad memories.
"It reminds me of the Algerian War. You know, we had a huge
military advantage. And we actually won the war,
militarily. I remember I was stationed at a tiny
village...I was the only European for miles around. And
they encouraged us to bring our wives...to show that it was
all very safe and ordinary. So Marie-No�lle came with me.
We had friends in the village. But we were never sure when
they might try to cut our throats.
"And Algeria was not like Iraq. The French had been there
for hundreds of years...it was a department of France, like
a state in the U.S.. But once the locals decided to get rid
of us, we couldn't stop them.
"And we paid a terrible price. I don't mean just money,
either. That kind of guerilla warfare - house to house,
where you can't trust the civilians and never know who's
going to try to blow you up - degrades an army. Terrible
things were done during the Algerian war...on both sides.
And in the end, we had to leave. It was just too costly to
stay."
(ie to fight a war like this you either have to win their hearts and minds- or put them all in concentration camps and let them die)
ex The Daily Reckoning
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