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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (161222)2/16/2003 3:04:10 PM
From: SilentZ  Read Replies (1) of 1574976
 
>Maybe a better analogy would have been Israel and the Palestinians or better yet, Vietnam. I bet most people back then thought that was a slam dunk and look how it turned out. I still think my point is a valid one.......that people fight hardest on their home turf. Whether that will make a difference in Iraq, time will tell.

Israel's completely different... but that's a subject for another conversation, and would likely change the subject of the thread.

Vietnam's a good analogy, but three things are off about it. One, urban warfare's difficult, but it pales in comparison with jungle warfare. Two, we're significantly stronger now than we were in the '60s. Three, what exactly was our mission in Vietnam, other than to contain the Communists? Vietnam is similar to Israel's jaunt into Lebanon... the mission was very vague. It's pretty clear to me that similar to in a medieval war... in Iraq, the king falls, the war's over.

-Z
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