Uncle, re: Forty years after WWII ended we still had 265,000 US Troops in Germany.
It is now 55 years after that war and we still have 50,000 troops in Germany.
Forty years after WW11 how many of the 265,000 troops in Germany were being killed by German insurgents and killing Germans to "help" them? How many in all the years of the post war period were there for that purpose?
Those troops were there to stand off against the Soviet Bloc. They were welcomed by the West Germans who ran their own country and they contributed a substantial amount to the GNP of the Germans who, by the way, did not consider them "infidels"....so, apples and oranges.
Germany suffered 3,500,000 deaths in WWII before they had taken enough to surrender.
America suffered over 400,000 deaths and we continued to take the fight to the enemy to the last day of the war.
The problem in Iraq is the same one we have in America...Not enough people have been killed in Iraq or in America to make everyone want to quit hostilities.
There's a ton of wisdom in that observation. They are not blood sick enough to want peace and the testosterone males are still living.
That truth of that observation is yet another reason for getting out now. I don't think we want to either kill the number of them necessary to make them blood sick enough to do what we want. If we aren't willing to rain death on the lot of them, (and let fate separate the guilty from the innocent,) then the ankle-biting war we're fighting will very quickly convince us to quit. Because no matter how the hawks spin it, when you have to try hard to find a reason for killing and dying in a foreign land, you shouldn't be there and you won't stay long.
Why is the Iraqi population refusing to give us what our military euphemistically calls "good intelligence?"
You may want to verify your sources on that one. In the briefings (given by men who had just returned) I attended at Ft Campbell, KY and in Nashville in July, I heard a completely different version of your take on the subject of Iraqi assistance to US Forces.
You're sources are much better than mine since I get my news from reading public reports and from listening to G. Myers and Rumsfeld on press conferences bemoaning the lack of "good intelligence." I've seen some indications that we're getting more help in some areas but I don't know how much help and how reliable it is, but you might. Ed
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