To: swarthyguy; Ragtime Cowgirl
The media savviness of the latest ShiaSunni campaign against the US is astute and is creating the best publicity for the irakis who oppose the US. US needs an unambiguous victory ASAP.
That's coming. While they've handed us a few dozen fatalities, reports from those who've left Fallujah indicate between 600 and 800 of their combatants dead in the local hospital. The town is critically short on food and medicine, and we are not in such a hurry for a clearcut victory that we need to be walking into any ambushes.
It's coming.
26 posted on
04/11/2004 3:07:43 PM PDT by
archy
(The darkness will come. It will find you,and it will scare you like you've never been scared before.)
To: archy
I agree. Any comparison to Vietnam is foolish. In Vietnam you had a national army, supported by two super powers launching attacks from a sovereign state that we couldn't attack. These terrorists in Iraq have no where to go, limited (if any) supplies, no real reinforcements and no peace from the constant noise of battle.
Will they like us when we're done? I didn't think that winning strategic goals was the same as winning a popularity contest.
32 posted on
04/11/2004 3:22:50 PM PDT by
oldleft
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