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To: GST who wrote (159487)	3/23/2005 1:11:35 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<conventional opposition> What use is that? Its useful as a measuring stick for what constitutes overwhelming force. If we didn't have overwhelming force we would face conventional opposition in addition to "non-conventional" but since we do have overwhelming force and the enemy is not unusually foolish we don't have any conventional opposition. Guerilla warfare, low level insurgancy and terrorism are tactics you resort to when your enemy had overwhelming force. They are designed to avoid presenting easy targets for that overwhelming force which would quickly defeat you if you did make yourself an easy target. If you have enough force to destroy anyone who stands and fights obviously people will either give up or sneak and hide and use unconventional tactics if they are not fools. Our concern should be with non-conventional opposition Our concern in Iraq should be with non-conventional opposition, but we have not been discussing Iraq as a whole, or the problems in Iraq in general, but rather the specific issue of whether or not we have overwhelming force. Tim