I hate to say this -- it's really pretty ugly -- but the reason Baghdad
will not be Stalingrad is fairly simple. The US has the power to
destroy as much of the city and its inhabitants as it wants. There is
no military impediment to this, only the political cost of such
slaughter. It comes
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I am forwarding a link that has been drawn to my attention about the Stalingrad
hypothesis. I would caution that I do not claim this hypothesis
as mine.
Extract:
The historical similarities between a 2003 Battle of Baghdad and the
1942 Battle of Stalingrad
I don't think were talking about Stalingrad here. I suspect it will be
more like Jenin, but this means that the US would have a hard time
installing a new Karzai.
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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Title: RE: [PEN-L:36269] Re: The Stalingrad thesis.
right. I've been telling people that I fully expect the US to win the war (especially since Honor is At Stake and we wouldn't want a repeat of Somalia) but then lose the occupation. I think I've been right: the US will be trying to run
Jim Devine wrote:
right. I've been telling people that I fully expect the US
to win the war (especially since Honor is At Stake and we
wouldn't want a repeat of Somalia) but then lose the occupation. I think
I've been right: the US will be trying to run a Gaza Strip the size of
California.
