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To: TimF who wrote (323610)1/30/2007 7:12:06 AM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1576435
 
re: You defeat the enemy in confrontations again and again, but the enemy cares more about the war than you do, and you give up an go home despite never being directly defeated in a tactical sense in any serious way).

Precisely, in Vietnam. We learned that "kill ratios" were meaningless.

I think Iraq is different though. You have so many age old animosities that I'm not sure most sides see us as the #1 enemy. They see the other groups as the enemy. In this situation I don't see how we can "win"; can't even picture what "win" looks like.