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.
Iraq, even Fallujah, would be a snap compared to subduing angry Americans.
In Iraq, the troops are 6,000 miles from their families, living on secure bases, and only venturing out in force.
In the USA, their families would be right here with them. They can’t live 24/365 on condition red in body armor. We’ll know who the domestic enemies and traitors are. It will be a long walk across the parking lot at Target.
All they would ever see are ordinary men and women trying to go about their business. Some would smile and chit-chat and hand them their IDs. Most would be grumpy ... and hand them their IDs. None of their IDs would say "I'm an anti-government rebel." The troops would stand around dealing with POed civilians.
Meanwhile, traitors would disappear with little or no evidence of what happened. When you outnumber the bastards 1,000 to 1 you don't even need guns for weapons. Just opportunity and ingenuity.
They should stop threatening and insulting the American people. That just makes Americans think they shouldn't exist. When you deal with people with honesty and respect they hardly ever think about revolt or mayhem. We are not animals we are men and we know the difference between respect and insults, between honest differences and a con game. We know the difference between the Constitution and Karl Marx.