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To: Bilow who wrote (129139)	4/13/2004 6:53:47 PM
From: Noel de Leon	Respond to of 281500

One can use numbers many ways. Battle of Thermopolae Greek troops * Persian troops ************************* ************************* ************************* ************************* *************************** result: 300 Greek troops dead, Greece saved, and the roots of western civilization saved(shades of Huntington). Are we seeing a Greek tragedy unfold? Is Bush II looking at a new Thermopolae? If so the terrain is not the best for a Thermopolae type of action.

To: Bilow who wrote (129139)	4/13/2004 7:04:41 PM
From: Sam	Respond to of 281500

You can see that the numbers in Iraq are considerably worse than the numbers that wiped Custer out. Now our technological advantages over the Iraqis are wider than Custer's technological advantages over the Indians, but not by enough. Actually, Carl, I think our technological advantages are enough--if we were will to treat them the way, e.g., Rome treated Carthage. But (thankfully) we aren't. We aren't willing to kill that many of them and disperse the rest, salting the earth behind us (or, what amounts to the same thing, taking overt military control of the land we want and the resources that we need).