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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch
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To: stockman_scott who wrote (30991)11/4/2003 12:06:43 AM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (1) of 89467
 
Scott,

Maybe we ought to have a contest here and see which cock-up the present quagmire in Iraq most resembles.

Here's the choices:

1) Vietnam

2) Lebanon in the '80s

3) Algeria, during the independence struggle

My vote? I see more similarities to what the arrogant French went through in the 1950s and 1960s in Algeria than what the U.S. went through in Viet Nam.

The resistance is diffuse, with no central command. There is scant evidence of the sort of military re-supply such as the Soviets provided to the Viet Minh and the Viet Cong, colonialism is at the heart of the matter, and the terrain is similar between Algeria and Iraq. Indicating that urban warfare, digging out stubborn and diffuse resistance fighters will be what grinds down the will of the foreign oppressor.

Ironic, isn't it? George Bush has become a stupid Frenchman.
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