From: "Rich Gauszka" 

It's not the pitched battles that are the problem. We won those in Nam and
Iraq. It's when the fighters fade into the populace.

While one can win against a populace in revolt you'd have to sell your soul
and use Stalinist measures. Hopefully we'll never do that.

We're still having trouble in Afghanistan and begging NATO to support us
there.  Even our commanders have given testimony that the Armed Forces are
close to the break point.


"Richard B."  wrote in message
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> On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 15:59:36 +0100, Ad
>  wrote:
>
>>You could not win a conventional war with Iran without a massive
>>draft, an emptying of the treasury & a loss of position wrt the other
>>great powers e.g. China.
>
> Sure we can, with or without nukes but no crying from the political
> sidelines.  You may indeed be right if the Democrats here prefer to
> side with the enemy again in which case the initial premise has been
> invalidated.
>
> Our troops are the best ever and no one can take them down face to
> face unless the politicos hamstring them.  See Lyndon Johnson (D) for
> the playbook here.
>
> - Richard

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