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| ''The synergy of American military power'' |
| 2002-08-26 |
Meryl Yourish extracts this bit from a New York Times piece on Iraq:"My assessment is that if you put enough pressure on them, they will come apart and won't fight," General McCaffrey said in an interview. "The notion that they will retreat into the built-up areas and turn them into a kind of Stalingrad is laughable."McCaffrey should know, since he was one of those who caused them to fall apart the last time. This is what I was referring to, with phrasing not as elegant, in yesterdays comments on the subject. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #2 During last October, diplomatic efforts by the afghani taliban to find an intermediary party to assist with their attempts to put a stop to American demands, landed on deaf ears at the Vietnamese Ambassador to the UN, Quoted by the BBC on October 10th, "Even we were not stupid enough to strike at the american people" For those that would piss and moan about "How long will we have to be in Iraq if we go in?" My answer is if it took 60 years to civilize the Germans and Japanese and the result is that both places are better than we found them, then perhaps atleast 60 years of occupying their country, marrying their daughters, developing their political parties to meet our needs and teaching them how to use indoor plumbing, would be just about right. and perhaps, serve them right as well. |
| Posted by: Frank Martin 2002-08-26 21:40:19 |
| #1 The world seems to have forgotten what happens when Amercans get really mad. The Japanese were the last combatants to make Americans really mad. The result was 7,000,000 dead Japanese. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2002-08-26 17:33:22 |