To: WaterDragon
The Brits are at least two weeks ahead of us in Basra.
Maybe that's because they had a two week head start?
Anyway let the Telegraph show a little patriotic favoritism for their marines, if I remember correctly they got unfair criticism for waiting outside Basra until it cooled down.
31 posted on
05/04/2003 3:35:20 PM PDT by
mrsmith
To: mrsmith
Is it possible to show patriotism for one's own troops without the need to put down your allies? Americans manage that. Probably has to do with our lack of an inferiority complex.
42 posted on
05/04/2003 3:42:49 PM PDT by
WaterDragon
(Only America has the moral authority and the resolve to lead the world in the 21st Century.)
To: mrsmith
"Anyway let the Telegraph show a little patriotic favoritism for their marines, if I remember correctly they got unfair criticism for waiting outside Basra until it cooled down."
That would be well-deserved criticism for sitting on their asses outside of Basra, waiting for the Americans to win the war before finally going into Basra only after we had taken Baghdad. With Baghdad in our grasp, resistance collapsed in Basra, making taking the city a snap for the Brits.
If, on the other hand, the Brits had taken Basra sooner, it would have helped to undermine the resolve of the Iraqi fighters to the north and would have made the American advance easier.
The Brits moved only thirty miles and then sat and waited while the Americans did all the heavy lifting.
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