To: WaterDragon
You got a British paper wanting to brag on British performance. O.K. I can see that, and am willing to let it slide. Even the UK is feeling a little . . . envious . . . about the big dawg.
However, I think this paper is neglecting a few points.
1. The Brits occupy one of the most anti-Saddam parts of Iraq -- the Shi'ite region around Basrah. Of course, they are going to be greeted like conquering heros.
2. The US holds some of the most pro-Saddam regions, including Falludah and Tikrit. If there *is* going to be any resistance to occupation those are the places -- and it does not matter whether Brits or Yanks are occupying those sites.
3. Over the vast majority of Baghdad, the US are being treated as liberators. The Western press, partly because they are lazy pigs, too self absorbed to leave the Palestine Hotel, and partly because they are anti-US anyway (even US newshawks) prefer to play up the few demonstrators that go to that hotel to protest the US. Read that whole story here:
http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/629xnqei.asp Anyway, I would put this in the same category as those "quagmire" predictions of four weeks back.
41 posted on
05/04/2003 3:42:26 PM PDT by
No Truce With Kings
(The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
To: No Truce With Kings
Excellent points.
45 posted on
05/04/2003 3:44:52 PM PDT by
WaterDragon
(Only America has the moral authority and the resolve to lead the world in the 21st Century.)
To: No Truce With Kings
I was going to post a reply to this thread, but I don't need to now. You nailed it.
To: No Truce With Kings
4. The British pussyfooted around Basra for two full weeks, scared to venture into battle. The US surged towards Baghdad at full speed in a sandstorm, and conquered Baghdad at darn near the same exact time that Basra truly fell. Good that the Brits are so good at peace, because they are certainly no USA when it comes to war, however imperial their heritage.
We aren't accustomed to sipping tea with the natives, because the US is about doing the job and going home, not setting up a colony...
51 posted on
05/04/2003 3:48:31 PM PDT by
EaglesUpForever
(Boycott france and russia for at least 20 years)
To: No Truce With Kings
Good post.
To: No Truce With Kings
Good points! In war as in real estate Location is King. As I mentioned, the bad guys in my area couldn't pay anybody to rocket us. My buds in one of the camps near the Paki border got rocketed daily. They were deep in Pushtunistan and I wasn't (lucky me).
d.o.l.
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