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 BL>  On the other hand, those three were willing to fight to
 BL>  the last man (and woman, for Russia and Vietnam). Was it
 BL>  the American clever-bombs,

 I recently read an article on the war in Columbia. The author
 suggested the govt had a good chance of winning, because, unlike
 the US in Vietnam, they have no place to run to. We had
 somewhere to go if we pulled out, they don't. Applies in all
 those cases.

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 BL> disloyal Army? IMO, the *real* war in Iraq did not start
 BL> until Dubya's war ended, and that urban guerilla war has so
 BL> far cost 10,000 of them and 1,000 for you... no clever
 BL> weaponry required, just bullets and body bags.

 Yep. See below on the Russian invasion of Berlin.

 BL>  I despair of Dubya's fight against "terror"... he's in the
 BL>  wrong place, fighting the wrong people. When he sorted
 BL>  Afghanistan and took Australia with him, I was all in
 BL>  favour. When he bluffed Pakistan onto our side and
 BL>  neutralised Iran, I thought it was brilliant! But that's
 BL>  where he went off the rails. Iraq? Is he kidding? Anyone
 BL>  with half a brain (snigger) can see that the Saudis are
 BL>  the real problem in the Middle East, with the Southern

 That's what I've been saying for a long time.

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 BL> in the jungle are threatening the West? The *easy* target
 BL> is the Royal House of Saud. Forget about Saddam, who was
 BL> mostly on our side anyway... why not "democratise" Saudi
 BL> Arabia, and take *their* oil while you're at it? Cut off
 BL> the money, and Osama will gasp himself into oblivion (if he
 BL> isn't dead already).

 About what I am saying.

 BL>  So far as I know, Iraq is the first to try urban guerilla
 BL>  warfare. It seems to work pretty well. They kill a few,
 BL>  the Americans respond and kill a lot, including women
 BL>  children (the old standby), and the general population
 BL>  hates American even more. Ho Chi Minh would be pleased.

 Some months ago I watched a program on WW2 tanks. The russians
 had the best tanks in the world. They took on the German Tigers
 and whomped them over and over.

 When they hit Berlin the Russian tanks took horrific losses.
 Seems the individual Germans with hand held weapons, conducting
 Urban Warfare, could do what the Panzers couldn't.

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 BL>  ROFL! Maybe all philosophy books are writen that way. My
 BL>  one had example discussions up the back, and they made it
 BL>  perfectly clear what the impenetrable crap up the front
 BL>  meant. What a waste of time it was! My favourite

 Never thought of that. Sounds reasonable.

 BL>  time-waster at Uni was steam engines - in an electronics
 BL>  course! I never did find a use for it...

 If it was hands on it coulda been fun.

BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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