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Strategies & Market Trends : Steve's Channelling Thread
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To: Rich1 who wrote (27492)9/15/2001 6:11:00 PM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (2) of 30051
 
Hi Rich1; If we go to Afghanistan or Iraq, we will kick their butts. These countries are run by a few people who have deluded themselves into thinking that they can resist the military might of the West. They were deluded when they tried this with Saddam's elite Republican Guard tank force (which had conquered the vast forces of Iran) in the Gulf War, and now they believe that if they fight us in the mountains and towns they'll reverse the verdict. Due to advances in weapons technology that we have and they don't they will again be destroyed at relatively low casualty rates for ourselves. (But likely worse than the ~300 we lost in the Gulf War.)

Here's a military paper on the destruction of the Republican Guard; eventually the West became so ashamed at how easily they killed Iraqis that they let the remnants of the Guard escape: #reply-16355652

These are deluded fanatics we are up against. They are not the polished war machine of the highly efficient 3rd Reich. They are not the 1.5 billion highly industrialized Communists, walking in lockstep unison. All the neighboring countries want to help us. They can't even make airplanes. Afghanistan doesn't even have TV This is not at all a "fair" fight. Don't worry about it.

-- Carl
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