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To: neolib who wrote (191480)	7/12/2006 1:54:29 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Airforces and navies are basically worthless to those guys. They are expensive equipment which will be worthless within hours or at most a few days of any engagement with the West. Yes, but they don't know they will be tangling with West. Saddam fought with almost all his neighbors. Furthermore, Arab armies have an important function as patronage schemes and to keep the locals in line. Big shiny toys help there.

To: neolib who wrote (191480)	7/12/2006 2:33:49 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 281500

It's curious. The Dubyettes keep whining about assymetric war when THEY are the big side of the assymetry and have all of the resources. So, given that the US has the big advantage of almost limitless money (in comparison) and 3 1/2 years of doing goodness knows what in Iraq...what is the problem? "I don't know what the difficulty was. My belief is Mr. Rumsfeld came in believing he could pay for high-tech weapons, particularly some of the things in terms of missile defense, space-based systems, by cutting two more divisions out of the Army. So his idea of transformation, I think, was pare the Army down in terms of the force structure, use the money for high tech. Professionally unschooled..... paul van riper (Lt. Gen., U.S. Marine Corps-Ret.) pbs.org Is the rightwing in the US simply incompetent? Does that explain Iraq? If we're the big tree and we're complaining about the relentless assault of beetles, why aren't we becoming more beetle-like? If we know the beetle-behavior is the winning one...through attrition and bad pr even...then why are we still doing the same tree-like behavior? Didn't we learn anything from Vietnam? I guess we didn't.