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It is exactly what you suggested.
Don't just say it. Show it.
I take it you're offering a comment on your own competency to make military judgements.
Nope. Are you?
I pointed out what happens to an army in the open on roads in this day and age.
Not quite. You pointed out what happens to a fleeing army, not an advancing army.

That's why advancing campaigns usually win wars whereas retreating/fleeing (cut and run) campaigns usually fail.
I'm sure that any surviving members of the German Sixth Army would offer to disagree.
Are you saying that the unending advancements of the Allied forces didn't win the war and that retreating Germans did?
I must admit I'm confused by your statement.

Don't just say it. Show it.

Okey-dokey.

That you see no potential threat from a superhighway, not just "another road", passing for hundreds of miles through another country to eventually connect to the middle of America is...unusual...IMO. I guess where I see military strategy you see...what exactly? Skepticism? Belief in the good nature of your fellow man? Ignoring the possibility will make it not happen?

Do you remember how effeciently German troops were moved on the Autobahn? Do you remember how fast our troops moved on the Autobahn once we controlled it? WWII mobilized forces were turtles compared to today's mechanized warfare.

Now, you can deny that you raised the spectre of an enemy using the US road net as part of an invasion; however, your own words say otherwise.

Incidentally, today's mechanized forces do not move significantly faster than World War II forces on the strategic and operational levels. Tactically, they're fast; but they still have to stop to refuel, and that takes time.

Not quite. You pointed out what happens to a fleeing army, not an advancing army.

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find pictures of the road to Khafji (the reporters never got there). Most of the Iraqi Army got slaughtered on the road.

Are you saying that the unending advancements of the Allied forces didn't win the war and that retreating Germans did?

I take it you're unfamiliar with the Battle of Stalingrad, then. The German Sixth Army didn't "cut and run," so they should have been victorious--they weren't. The problem is that you are confusing the cause with the effect.