At 04:09 PM 6/20/2007, Dr. Core wrote:
So to people like Chris Campbell, Hamas behavior is a "mystery". But
try to apply my hypothesis: those forces living in a hole (from Viet
Cong to Mujahideen (vs. USSR) to Taliban to Saddam to Hezbollah)
aren't stopped by 50% (Tet Offensive) to 100% (Hezbollah) casualty
rate.
That's not the mystery. The mystery is that they are so steeped in
their hatred that they act out of spite, harming their own interests
and those of the Muslim communities in their countries just to hurt
Israel and the West. It goes beyond stupid and irrational; it's
self-defeating and, apparently, purposely so. They can't possibly
destroy our way of life, but they would rather die trying than
improve their own lot in life. That is the very definition of crazy.
Yes yes 100% casualty rate seems crazy, but it's based on Israeli and
Western numbers? I am just the messenger, eh?
Whose numbers? Hezbollah is still around, so they didn't suffer 100%
casualties.
Apply it to Gundam now: a nation (both "good" and "evil", a lot of you
still seem to think it matters) high tech enough to invent robotic
weapons and functional enough to train large professional armies don't
go fight straight-up Braveheart/A Bao Aqu style battles, not since
1945. So please, Mizushima give us something different? PLEASE?
You already have different. That's what GitS:SAC is for. Gundam isn't
the vehicle for different since the very premise is absurd (though
not as presented in First Gundam; the robots were still silly, but
the general plot and rationale for small unit tactics was at least
internally consistent. Without that general setup, fighting in MS
designs is dumb. How they can you expect a rational use of such suits?).
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