Dear Jim
I think we both agree the more important question is whether it is
Stalingrad now.
Today it is clear that US forces cannot go into the centre of
Fallujah, and tonight cannot go into the centre of Najaf although 6 US
troops have just been killed by mortar fire from within Najaf if the
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I wrote:
>>you talked about Stalingrad in Iraq a little more than a year ago and
that scenario didn't work out. Why was that prediction/understanding
wrong? The current "Stalingrad" seems more plausible, but your overuse
of the term pushes me to be skeptical and to wonder it maybe things
are better
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From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Is this Stalingrad?
Chris,
you talked about Stalingrad in Iraq a little more than
e some way to
oppose the war while supporting the troops.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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From: Chris Burford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> The hegemonic coalition forces are not going to get encircled and be
> forced to surrender, but Fallujah is arguably the Stalingrad of this
> war - the advanced point
Well said, nicely put, Chris,
Lesser evil , indeed.
We do have an American tradition of rooting for the underdog. There's even a
play called "Damned Yankees" where the devil helps the last place baseball
team beat the New York Yankees for the championship.
Charles
From: Chris Burford
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The hegemonic coalition forces are not going to get encircled and be
forced to surrender, but Fallujah is arguably the Stalingrad of this
war - the advanced point that the invaders could not take, the point
where they found their logistical, and in this case, particularly
their political, lines of
