I hate to say this -- it's really pretty ugly -- but the reason Baghdad
will not be Stalingrad is fairly simple. The US has the power to
destroy as much of the city and its inhabitants as it wants. There is
no military impediment to this, only the political cost of such
slaughter. It comes
Title: RE: [PEN-L:36269] Re: The Stalingrad thesis.
right. I've been telling people that I fully expect the US to win the war (especially since Honor is At Stake and we wouldn't want a repeat of Somalia) but then lose the occupation. I think I've been right: the US will be trying to run
