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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (167275)7/26/2005 2:51:33 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
"Unlike Vietnam, there are no powerful forces in support of insurgents."

This is true, but we don't have 500,000 troops there either. The country was already a storehouse of arms and explosives, thanks to Saddam. Jihaddis from all over the world are streaming into Iraq. I'd say woldwide radical Islam constituted a powerful force. Sunni Saudi Arabia constitutes a deep source of cash. The lesson of Vietnam was that a people that won't be defeated, can't be defeated. The Sunnis in Iraq see no upside to capitulation.
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