Posted on 10/24/2006 5:50:50 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
If we had to go into Korea right now it would be a slugfest.....and make Iraq look like a Sunday walk in the park.....we would win...but at a terrible cost.
I think we fought too clean in Iraq.
If too many Democrats get into office here, they will draft all of our young men into a huge army to fight more enemies with much older equipment and tactics.
precision carpet bombing
Too bad we don't have the balls to do it now.
Homosexual activists that sometimes those slogans included vernacular words that are slurs on gay men, and complained bitterly.
I guess a realllllllly dirty war is where we ignore, say, 1/2 of such complaints....?
The problem I see is not winning the wars but that we cannot occupy the world. Its the occupation that is extremely messy as shown in Iraq. Iraq isn't even an occupation anymore and its still wobbly. So political solutions are needed. We can't fix everything militarily. NK is a classic example.
I will argue we still do.
LOL
We need a test, though.
Iran and Syria are raising their hands.....
I guess when we get hardcore, that goes down to....5 years? Oh, that and the punishment for aiding terrorists will be upped to 3 years.
And I pray sir you are correct.
If our Backs are to the wall.....we fight....go Roman on someones butt.
I'm glad we don't need to now.
Same here.
I blame the media coverage for this. Too much media coverage. GW1 - all the coverage aired about when the Iraqi's fled Kuwait and we caught them out in the open. You can tie this back to Uncle Walter and 'Nam, if you want. But, for me, the constant exposure of the "carnage / destruction / did the US go to far?"...sealed the deal.
Colon Powell did not help, after, saying that maybe we were a bit to zealous. Bleeding heart liberal he turned out to be.
It's war. A new type of war. The bad guys hide amoung civilians. Ok.
I think a few demonstrations of "this city will cease to exist after 3:00pm tomorrow" would change a lot.
It would change the bad guy tactics - can't hide here anymore, I'll die anyway.
It would change the local population attitude - if we let the bad guys hide here, we are toast.
I also blame the politicans involved.
I also blame the American public for being really stupid and not recognizing what a real threat is.
Once again, the world is safe - because I'm not in charge.
Half of the mid-east would be a waste-land by now.
"If you are going to shoot - shoot. Don't talk."
/johnny
/johnny
"If we had to go into Korea right now it would be a slugfest.....and make Iraq look like a Sunday walk in the park.....we would win...but at a terrible cost."
Certainly Seoul would take a hit. But knowing that is the case, we would have no reason to hold back anything, all the way to fuel air explosives. North of the DMZ would be charcoal, no way to mess around on this one. Doubt the Chinese would lift a finger to intervene.
Your point is valid and one I've raised but it is not enough as I mentioned in my post. Our handling of modern conflicts will require a bit more sophistication than just killing people.
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