95% of the people killing American's in Iraq are not Iraqi. In both Iraq and Afghanistan foreign fighters make up the largest number of enemy combatants.
95% of Iraqis want the fighting to end so they can get back to their lives. Now there are a lot of people that are getting pulled into this sectarian bullshit, that's the real fear in Iraq as far as I'm concerned. > -----Original Message----- > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 8:08 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: comments? > > > > Sam wrote: > > Let's think back to WWII again and use your philosophy. > > We'd be dead. > > > > The summary of your point is that you think it's possible to win an > urban "combatant" war. I don't. We'll find out who's right. > > As I pointed out for Iraq - 95% of the people killing Americans are > Iraqis. Translation: We are in the middle of a civil war. We will > not "win" that war. This was the lesson of Vietnam that you and > McNamara apparently never learned. > > There's just too many of these examples to cite, but the better > question is can you cite a single modern urban war that was won? No, > because there aren't any. Not Vietnam, not the first invasion of > Lebanon, it won't happen in Iraq, and it won't happen for Israel now. > > The mistake you and others are making are in forgetting that, for > example, in WWII the only way either VE day occurred was because we > decided to bomb civilians. That is, we used the kill-everyone > strategy. > > Which is why I've said - if we want to win in Iraq or Lebanon we can > do it 2 ways: kill everyone, or find a diplomatic solution. > > The but-they-started-it-and-they're-the-bad-guys talk is romantic and > emotional, and therefore totally impractical. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:212059 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
