[Askel5]

A million men with obsolete weaponry simply cannot hold a candle to Western offensive power - and countries with high birthrates also have lower-tech economies. That's the key point Sobran overlooks here. Our military in Desert Storm suffered about as many casualties as if they had been back home getting in car wrecks or falling off ladders.

What, you think Iraq makes their own weapons?

I'm not saying that Russian and Chinese weapons (or strategists) are necessarily superior to ours ... I'm just saying that it was to their benefit strategically to give us a long kiss goodnight as they put our leadership to sleep by "winning" a war we didn't finish but rather left open so we could bang the drum of anti-US imperialism FOR THEM the next eight years with the same Clean Hands we used in Kosovo.

Don't give me any jive about the superiority of the West's forces, intelligence and weapons when it's abundantly clear that all we need is a Democrat commander in chief to get our butts kicked by Somalis.

It's for show, Dirtboy ... yin-yang, yin-yang.

[dirtboy]

Don't give me any jive about the superiority of the West's forces, intelligence and weapons when it's abundantly clear that all we need is a Democrat commander in chief to get our butts kicked by Somalis.

That's the difference between fighting a war and attempting peacekeeping in a region not terribly interested in peace. I hope you can make that distinction.

It's for show, Dirtboy

Chris, try reading some military history...

[AshleyMontagu]

And who did that most righteous of men, Marc Rich, sell arms to? Answer: Iran and Iraq and China. Deserving of a pardon he sure was. Quite a God-like act.