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To: TimF who wrote (323770)1/30/2007 5:43:08 PM
From: Alighieri  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1575596
 
Phyrrus had a small population base, and was always outnumbered, no matter what recruitment strategy Phyrrus would use he couldn't outlast Rome because Epirus didn't have enough people.

George W Phyrrus couldn't win for a number of reasons, many of which we share in iraq as we did in vietnam, and as the soviets did in afghanistan. It's nearly impossible for a foreign power to defeat a determined indigenous people. It was during Phyrrus' era and it is now.

Sooner or later you will leave, said Ghandi to the british viceroy.

Al