Draining the Swamp
Troops have cut off all roads and bridges leading out of Fallujah and have turned back hundreds of men trying to flee the city during the assault. Only women, children and the elderly can leave. The military says keeping men aged 15 to 55 from leaving is key to the mission’s success. “If they’re not carrying a weapon, you can’t tell who’s who,” said an officer with the 1st Cavalry Division.
That’s the problem with fighting a resistance summed in a single sentence: everyone is a potential member of the resistance. Apparently the innovative solution is to kill or intern all males of fighting age. Concentrating the population into camps is probably what the “military” would like to do next. These were were called “strategic hamlets” in Vietnam. Worked in the Philippines, eventually, at the cost of up to a million civilian deaths.
That illustrates my point – if most of the population is willing to raise arms against you, then you have already lost.
first you said there were going to be hundreds of us soldiers slaughtered, then that didn’t happen, as I pointed out. then you said most of the population is raising arms against us, and then simple math proves that wrong. then you say most of the population left, making the claim that most raised arms against us, double bizarre.
Of course most of them don’t want us there, and I’d be pretty happy to just leave. But an argument and a view point should try to be honest. I think many of your points are made dishonestly, whether I agree with them or not. But you’d say everyone is biased, there is no truth, and you’re just expressing your art. So be it.
I may come by here again in 6 months to point out more errors. Until then.
Over a thousand US soldiers have been slaughtered so far, with ten times that many wounded. I’d say any way you look at it the arithmetic is pretty awful
2 million dead under saddam / 20 years = 100,000 per year.
This last year, maybe 30K were killed in the war. That’s
a 60K net positive count of human’s with 100k more per year.
When you count the war dead, please take into account the
number of people saved.
If you used your math, you’d give up after the first 1000 dead in wwii and ignore the millions hitler killed.