Had We Learned the Lessons of the Vietnam War . . .

[James]

Had our political leaders paid closer attention to our experiences fighting the Vietnam War, they would have realized that disenfranchised people would endure tremendous sacrifice and struggle heroically and steadfastly against foreign occupiers and aggressors. Tactically, they would have anticipated the difficulty of fighting a counter insurgency war. How the guerilla/insurgent’s “hit, run, and disappear” tactics not only nullifies the superior weapons technology of the invading/occupying force, but also provides vast war-fighting advantage in concealment, confrontation, intelligence, and communication. They would have foreseen the frustration of fighting an enemy indistinguishable from those we claim to be liberating and protecting and would have understood that the resultant anxiety and stress precipitates a state of conditioned hyper-vigilance and overreaction in which civilian casualties and deaths become the norm rather than the exception. They would have realized that this inevitable “kill them all, let god sort them out” mentality, justified as collateral damage or excused under the rubric of the “fog of war,” abrogates the efforts to win the hearts and minds of the people and increases sympathy and support for the guerillas/insurgents.

 

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We freed them from a tyrant, all democracy's need time to get on their
feet. Bush did the right thing and the Iraqis deserve US support.

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[jimstaro]

"We freed them from a tyrant, all democracy's need time to get on
their
feet. Bush did the right thing and the Iraqis deserve US support."

First: We Did? He was our Tyrant right to the end, reason he was tried
in Iraq!!!!!

Second: Democracy, one doesn't Bomb others into Democracy, Slick!!

And you can tell the Iraqi's what Support they want from Us,
Especially when the 'BlowBack' Starts!!!

Thanks though for showing that Embedded Ignorance!!!!!!

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