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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch
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To: lurqer who wrote (16027)4/3/2003 5:01:50 PM
From: stockman_scott  Read Replies (2) of 89467
 
Did Iraq Study VietNam...?

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<<...The Americans and British are apparently aggrieved that Iraqis are not fighting according to traditional rules of engagement.

They are furious that groups like the Saddam Fedayeen have been firing from hospitals and schools, have been using civilians as shields and have adopted the tactic of pretending to surrender and waving white flags and then firing on their foes as they advance.

But these are traditional tactics — they are the traditional tactics of a guerrilla war.

What can the Iraqis do other than fight a guerrilla campaign? If they send out their tanks against the Americans and British, they will be obliterated — as happened last week when Iraqi tanks tried to break out of Basra and head for the Al Faw Peninsula.

In a war like this — a war which for ordinary Iraqis is one of national survival — all methods are fair. If guerrilla tactics are the only serious option available to them, it is folly to imagine that they are not going to use them.

If American and British strategists genuinely imagined that they would play the war according to Westpoint and Sandhurst rules, it is another miscalculation to add to the list.

There is, however, more to the unfolding guerrilla campaign than military tactics. There is a political strategy as well; Saddam Hussein and his generals have evidently been reading their military history books.

The use of civilians as shields, the pretense at surrender, are ploys that the Vietnamese used to great effect in their war with the U.S...>>
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