Aneirin
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Joined: 3/18/2006 From: Tamaris Status: offline
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The trouble with those two other middle eastern nations is they are not Americans, they don't do as they are told or even fear the might of the US machine, whereas the people at home do, they were brought up to do so. Perhaps it is the fielding of large armies and high technology weapons is largely irrelevent in this modern day and age of the world looking on, therefore a rag tag bunch of guerillas can actually if not win but at least hold out by being there in opposition until it is massive man power and technology becomes too expensive for the foreigner to be there, so they withdraw leaving the rag tag guerillas to claim victory. As to those that are being trained to cope, don't make me laugh, a bunch of fighters with a mindset that saw off two superpowers ain't going to worry about them, more the reverse, the newly trained will do the fearing. If it wasn't for the world looking in, the present age of the critical media eye, I don't doubt the allied forces would have eradicated any opposition long before now, but as it is with the media eye on the objective, large fighting forces are proving to be an expensive waste of time and perhaps another danger has become apparent, reliance on technology and therefore the weakening of the warrior.
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Everything we are is the result of what we have thought, the mind is everything, what we think, we become - Guatama Buddha Conservatism is distrust of people tempered by fear - William Gladstone
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