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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (101479)	6/13/2003 10:38:23 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Hawkmoon; Re: "Hmm... So what would you have them do.. Immediately invade all three nations? Or continue to apply political and economic pressure (which will eventually work because they have no rival superpower acting as their patron)?" Will that be working the same way that political and economic pressure worked to eliminate Castro in Cuba, after the fall of the Soviet Union? Re: "Btw, with regard to the recent operations in Iraq, something you should bear in mind. Sometimes it appropriate to permit the enemy to reconsolidate and regroup their forces. That way you can fix and destroy them enmasse and not one by one. And we didn't lose a single person in that attack Raymond." I agree with you here, but as before, it is an error to assume that the other guy is going to continue to be stupid. For Iraqi guerillas to mass in camps is stupid. This will be punished by the US, and I doubt that they'll continue to do it. Re: "Pretty soon the word will get out... Don't bother going to Iraq.. You won't come back." If it were only a matter of "body counts" we'd have won Vietnam, LOL. And the Russians would have won in Afghanistan. What's more worrisome is the lousy body counts we've been getting when they ambush us one or two at a time. I would guess that they'll return to that sort of thing, but gradually spread it across the country. Like I've said before, it takes 6 months to develop a reasonable resistance. I don't think that Iraq is an exception to this rule. So give them another four months and you will get an idea of what the "beginning" is like. -- Carl