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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Elroy who wrote (220638)2/24/2007 4:23:01 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
How many times do I have to point out that that analogy is totally inaccurate. And ongoing war and policing a defeated nation are not even close to the same thing. We hadn't won in 1943 in Europe.


Accurate enough. The war is obviously still going on. Nobody surrendered in 2003. The truer model is not WWII but the West Bank. The Baathists didn't fight a conventional war much at all and they certainly didn't surrender. They went underground with 2 billion dollars and swiftly emerged to fight an assymetrical terrorist war in league with Al Qaeda. This made sense for them because Arabs stink at conventional wars, but do terrorism quite well. It certainly helps them that the Arab world has no regard for life, even Arab life, unless the killers are Americans or Israelis.

This is the new model of war. The Israeli/Pal conflict is the practice run for all of this, just as the Spanish Civil War was the practice run for WWII.

The jihadists are aided and abetted by the multi-culti sensibilities of the left, that blames Americans or Israelis far more for accidentally killing civilians than jihadis for deliberately massacring civilians. The net effect is to make the Americans and Israelis fight with kid gloves, and it just extends the conflict.
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