You do realize you can't win this argument with a nihilist don't you Carl? <Hoo><Hoo>
(a) We own the night in the country. Cities have no night. There are either lights, or stuff on fire.
Stuff on fire? Great! Get the Cobras and Warthogs back in the game. See something moving in the "light" - blast it.
(b) Our armor is improved, but so are the anti armor weapons in the hands of the other side. For that matter, armor is famous for being vulnerable in cities. The main problem is that cities tend to channel military forces into predictable lanes of movement, and the enemy will set up ambushes (IEDs or antitank weapons or whatever) for those lanes.
Let's see "no armor" vs. "improved armor"... I'll go with the improved armor and take my chances.
(c) Our medical is also improved, but we're still taking the casualties and taking them big time. In addition, a lot of our guys are getting seriously wounded and are not going back. My argument was based on simple kill ratios, and since the kill ratios have not turned extremely high in our favor, the historical kill ratios are correct. By your argument, the government's reports of 47 soldiers dead in Iraq in 8 days must be in error.
You want extremely high kill ratio's? Boy do I have your extremely high kill ratio's! How many Fallujahians do you want taken out?
Re: "Moreover, I figure this enemy will not be able to sustain 800,000 KIA, much less a million before caving."
How many Iraqis do you know? Not the white meat type living in the US, but the ones who stayed in the old country?
How many raptors do you know? ...Not the lily livered FRAMeaters at the INN, but the ones that eat the meat while its still kicking?
Carl I frankly don't know what to tell you. I'm trying to be optimistic here. But if you say its going to take a million, two million or eight... well so be it.
I'm am really thrilled with your your assurances that Chicago is likely to remain generally radiation free. But I have to tell you CB, I frankly do not care to live under that or any other threat from these suicidal idiots. If eliminating the entire world of Iraqi's - white meat or dark - will give me freedom from such concerns, I would have no compulsions whatever at pulling the trigger on them.
Give them 48 hours to get their act straight if you want, but to embark on a "20 year" occupation of their nuthouse, when you know you can stop it all in a month doesn't compute in my mathmatology.
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