Bring your complaints to Bush and Rummy. They're the ones who sold us on being able to pacify Iraq on the cheap - they've been proven right thus far only because most Iraqis don't hate us. You do the math: 100,000 Americans can't control a nation of 25 million Muslims through fear alone.
Bring your complaints to Bush and Rummy. They're the ones who sold us on being able to pacify Iraq on the cheap - they've been proven right thus far only because most Iraqis don't hate us. You do the math: 100,000 Americans can't control a nation of 25 million Muslims through fear alone. If "most Iraqis don't hate us", then we have no need to instill fear in 25 million of them.
As I have been saying, we only have to isolate the Baathist die-hards and then kill them.
"...You do the math: 100,000 Americans can't control a nation of 25 million Muslims through fear alone...[sic]
Not if these 100,000 Americans are expected to fight this war with one hand tied behind their back and blindfolded.
You are a defeatist like Harris in thinking that a uncivilized country like this can hold us hostage.
The problem is not that we are afraid to use our power. The problem is that our enemies know this and it emboldens them.
Osama Bin Laden and his followers believe America is a paper tiger. We need to remind not only them, but the world that we are a paper tiger with nuclear teeth.