Phil > The US may well be a declining power, but is still feared.
Of course. An administration which can do a crime like 911 on its own citizens -- and just for the purpose of blaming someone else, has to be feared -- both by its citizens and by others. Meanwhile, the US is bleeding from a thousand pin pricks -- all self-induced.
the7thfire.com
>>Entire US column reported wiped out in ambush near Iranian border.
A US military column was completely wiped out in fierce fighting with Resistance forces according to the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in the town of al-Mundhiriyah, near the Iranian border, east of Ba‘qubah.
The correspondent, who was at the scene of the battle, wrote that a US column made up of eight vehicles came under Iraqi Resistance attack in the Jalabiyah area, known as the at-Tilal or hilly area, at 10pm Friday night. The Resistance fighters holed up in strongholds in the hills unleashed a sweeping attack on the US column, using missiles, pipe rockets, bazookas, and land mines that they had planted in the path of the American forces before their arrival.
Four US tanks, three Humvees, and one armored vehicle were destroyed in the fighting that lasted two hours, the correspondent reported. He said that US dead were in excess of 60 men. An adjutant commander of the Iraqi border guards confirmed that the entire US column was wiped out.
The correspondent wrote that the smell of blood and burning flesh pervaded the smoldering wreckage of the US vehicles and all the other remains of the large column.<<
> I think that the US has no equal in the world to its military strength,
That's what the neocons also believe -- and they are determined to prove it. So I don't think we'll have to wait long for an answer.
> her obvious weakness is the economy
Not while the paper mill is churning -- and it is. |
