Try to envision this, Sgt. An A-10 Warthog levels and burns the neighborhood your parents live in and kills another 100 law-abiding Americans in order to kill one or two suspected "rebels." You will never stand next to a civilian again without the fear that he or she may jam an icepick into your ear or eye socket.
If you want to play hypothetical games in order to induce fear you ought to consider the consequences of your hypothetical actions. Think of the results of using superior military firepower on working class neighborhoods in America.
Can I refill your beer and get you something to eat while you consider that, Sgt.?
It's good stuff. I guarantee its quality. ;^)
Brillaint.
Maybe some FR Marines can help me out here, but if I recall correctly from my nephew who is currently serving duty...
stuff like this guys little rant are a huge No, No.
Truth be told in a scenario of a real red/blue civil war, our current Armed forces would be irrelevant. If you scale up the last Civil War to today, each Army would have 6-8 MILLION men in each, which would dwarf current force structure.
I started laughing when this pole smoker started comparing things to Fallujah. A thousand patchwork terrorist imports surrounded in a city out in the middle of the desert is a pea shoot compared to what an all out civil war here would be.
I live in rural podunk Iowa. My county has 40,000 people, the counties that border mine have another 100,000. Towns every 10 miles or so, subdivisions, several houses every square mile in the country. Roads and backroads, creeks, rivers, nook and crannies, miles and miles of woods and hills and places to hide. More guns and ammo than one could possibly count. Generations of ex-military. Thousands upon thousands around you coming from all sides.
That’s bascially about the same scenario in about everything east of the Missouri river, except way hillier down south. Get’s even better out west. Then you have dozens of medium to large cities. It will NOT be Fallujah. It will be 10,000 Fallujahs all at once. Try covering all that across the entire US with our military. You’ll have ten thousand firefights going on simultaneously. Try providing close air support and supply lines for all those. It’s a logisitical nightmare for any commander.
That’s why we tried to keep the civiliam population on our side in Iraq. They knew what would happen if the population rose up against our troops. That’s why Japan didn’t invade us, why Germany lost at Stalingrad. So I hope that ‘Marine’ tries out their wet dream, he’ll reap a whirlwind he cannot conceive.