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To: NickSE who wrote (108960)	7/30/2003 9:40:24 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

lol!

To: NickSE who wrote (108960)	7/30/2003 9:45:20 PM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Palestinian Child Abuse Slideshow littlegreenfootballs.com

To: NickSE who wrote (108960)	7/30/2003 9:56:14 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

This is one of the very discouraging things, this total lack of understanding, by most Americans, of how guerrilla wars are fought, how these wars are won and lost. The information is readily available. The masters, the winners in this game, (Mao and Ho) they have a long historical track record to study. They wrote a lot about it. And the U.S. had a long tutorial on the subject, in the 1960s. Which makes it very discouraging, when I see us making exactly the same mistakes, and the widespread belief in Myths that served us so badly, the last time we did this. What is so hard about understanding, that if we have conducted ourselves so a billion plus people hate us, and most of the rest of the world has moved to the neutral corner, that we are not winning? This fallacy, that holding ground is what matters, that having our soldiers in Baghdad and Kabul means we are winning, this will be the death of us.

To: NickSE who wrote (108960)	7/30/2003 10:52:53 PM
From: GST	Respond to of 281500

bin Laden owes Dick Cheney a Christmas card. 9/11 almost worked against al Qaida, but fortunately for bin Laden he had friends in the White House to help him out by getting the US to invade Iraq, doing nothing to hurt al Qaida while at the same time tying up our military and generating widespread hatred and mistrust of America around the world in place of the sympathy and desire to cooperate that we saw from the four corners of the earth directly after 9/11.