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2004-04-08 Iraq-Jordan

Japanese troops in Iraq to halt operations outside camp

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Posted by Paul Moloney 2004-04-08 3:44:50 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Bunker mentality,if they stay hunkered down in thier base they are nothing but a target.

Posted by Raptor 2004-04-08 8:24:03 AM|| 2004-04-08 8:24:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 "We are at, I believe, a tipping point for events in Iraq and I am not convinced that the United States has the capability to tip this back the other way in our favour," said Charles Pena of the Cato Institute.

It's pretty amazing how 30 KIA over 3 days constitutes a tipping point. I would tend to guess that Pearl Harbor would constitute the mother of all tipping points. And what about the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, where the Vietcong launched an offensive against the US that killed 1,500 Americans (at a cost of 45,000 of their own dead)? 30 dead in 3 days is not a tipping point of any kind, unless it's of the point where the anti-American voices raise the volume of their clamorous objections even further, if that's even possible.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-04-08 10:35:45 AM|| 2004-04-08 10:35:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Don't forget they are adopting tactics similar to the one our peacekeepers using in the Balkans: becuase we were obligated to have troops there for very good geopolitical reasons, but could not risk casualties for domestic political reasons, we adopted a similar bunker mentality.

Can't say as I blame the Japanese on this one.

Posted by Carl in N.H 2004-04-08 2:09:19 PM|| 2004-04-08 2:09:19 PM|| Front Page Top

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