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To: tekboy who wrote (56914)	11/16/2002 8:10:33 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I’d agree with much of what Bankoff says here, though he fails to make challenge the Boot account on the grounds that I would consider most basic: the inaccurate characterization of the war as a counter-insurgency campaign. This particular sentence is one I’d second: One has the sense that the wars described by Boot and Donnelly are depicted as "small" not because the conflicts were militarily insignificant to all concerned, but rather because they took place in the developing world, whose inhabitants do not merit the same consideration as Americans do. I had to laugh, though, at Bankoff’s description of Tirad Pass as a “narrow rock formation” and of the battle there as “the Filipino Thermopylae", rather than as a suicidally brave, tactically ridiculous, and militarily insignificant engagement. Clearly he’s never been there. I can forgive him for that; not too many people have been there.