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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (63292)	6/16/2005 3:17:11 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 81568

In some cases, overwhelming force works. In some cases, it doesn't. Vietnam is a good example of the latter. For those who didn't learn lessons from Vietnam, we now have Iraq. Besides, the William the Conqueror analogy is flawed and doesn't apply here. In the olden days, kingdoms expanded and shrunk across the globe. Just look at the history of the Indian subcontinent or present-day China. The American invasion of Iraq is comparable to the British empire stretching itself across the world in the 16th to early 20th century. But, as I said, the British did it with a lot of finesse. Americans are more blunt and so, are likely to face stronger resistance. And the extent of resistance varies from region to region. The British faced little trouble in India for decades, whereas they quickly ran into a mess in Iraq and left within a decade.