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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: carranza2 who wrote (152786)	11/28/2004 4:29:23 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Well, thank you for your non-thoughtful post. I found this interesting: "US Army General Charles Dunlop saw the coming wave years ago while serving in Somalia: "I was struck," Dunlop says, "by the resourcefulness, cleverness and fierceness of the Somalis in confronting us" even though they had only primitive weapons and were often starving. Dunlop warns, America underestimates "the combat capability of societies we had considered too resource-poor to challenge us." As well as the point that insurgents probably don't call home to their mommies. That mommy point is a good one. In a kinder gentler nation, do we have the kind of fighting men that really WANT to die for Iraq as much as the other guy wants to die for it? I know Patton said that you make the other poor bastard die for his country- but I think Patton would have been a bit...nonplussed...by military men and women calling their mothers fathers and grandparents to complain about wartime conditions. Perhaps you did not find this point "worth responding to" but I find it can excellent point- and it doesn't matter to me if dead Hitler's ghost made it.