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Politics : Is Secession Doable? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (1888)	12/17/2004 5:34:36 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1968

If this were a soccer or football game, your comment would be a reasonable one. Unfortunately, this is a real and not a game. Which doesn't change its reasonableness at all. It might change the reasonableness of an argument that went something like "The tactics of combatants always change, therefore there is no need to be concerned about more effective tactics being used by the enemy, and the war will be easy and there is no doubt that it will have wonderful results", but I made no such argument. I just pointed out that changing tactics is normal and to be expected. We in turn change our tactics and techniques. Stating that fact is not stating anything that anyone with any knowledge about war or about Iraq wouldn't already know, and it isn't an argument for (or against) pulling our of Iraq now. You're right though.........they have lost a lot of people in the fighting but there are 22 million Iraqis and only 150k Americans in Iraq. And there are a lot more 22 million people in India. These facts are as true as your statement and just as irrelevant. We aren't fighting against 22 million Iraqis, or even a significant fraction of them, just as we aren't fighting against a billion citizens of India. The number of active Iraqi insurgents is well below the number of American soldiers in Iraq. How long do you think it will be before Americans in large numbers realize that the US has made a serious blunder. You are seriously begging the question. Tim