Hi Nadine Carroll; Re: "Thank you for predicting disaster, Carl, I feel better now."
Nadine Carroll, September 15, 2002
Yes, the army [of Iraq] would melt away, but why would it become a guerilla force? What would these guerillas be fighting for? An end to American occupation? Why, when our stated goal is to establish a more democratic government and then leave? Who thinks we want to occupy Iraq permanently? You think they're going to piss our vastly powerful army off to get something they can get by waiting? Talk about human nature, when a vastly superior force rolls in, it's human nature to lay very low and try to get a measure of what that force really wants and intends to do, because if you can live with it, why commit suicide uselessly?
edit: The Iraqis have been trained to passivity by forty years of a police state. Unless we leave a power vacuum somewhere, their instincts will be to obey. Like the East Germans did. #reply-17992229
You were right, in a way. Going into Iraq with so few troops left a massive power vacuum from one end of the country to the other. Which is also the problem with Israel in the occupied territories.
-- Carl |
