How come the USA military is suffering from the "Big daddy Hurt"?

Question

The rag tag insurgents are hurting the military ( USA Military ) each and everyday. How can this be?

Answer 1

The Middle East as a whole and especially the Iraqis view the United States as an occupying power. And nothing fills up the ranks of an insurgency faster than the belief that another country has control of your country. This setup as it is now is providing new terrorists everyday in young ones who feel it is their duty to oust the occupying power in any way possible, even joining in terrorism (sometimes seen as good but usually more as the lesser of two evils).

And since there is no official uniform of terrorists, nor do they fight in any conventional way, there is almost no way to see them coming until after their attack has started. And since their attacks happen so quickly (explosives from usually one person only), it is almost impossible to stop them, though not completely impossible. The American army is a good army, the best in the world. But their training and their leadership in Don Rumsfeld both need serious help in this new war they are fighting.

Answer 2

Oh, "how can this be"? It's such a huge mystery! Look dude, the military is made up of people. People bleed. People die. The United States military is not made up of indestructible cyborgs. What planet are you from?
Secondly, it depends on your definition of "suffering". How many aircraft carriers has "Big Daddy Hurt" sunk? ZERO! How many B-52's has "Big Daddy Hurt" shot down? ZERO! It seems like the only thing "Big Daddy Hurt" can do is huck a homemade pipe bomb into a ditch and hope for the best. Maybe take a pot-shot or two at a Hummer with an RPG, or strap on a bomb and take the express elevator straight to hell along with a couple of America's brave soldiers. "Big Daddy Hurt" is more like Small Papa Boo Boo. You don't win a war with those tactics, you wear down resolve and get your occupier to leave. That's the best you can hope for.

Answer 3

Interesting question, but wrong on it's face. Used to be that we were the targets. Occasionally we still are but mostly through cowardly acts like IED's. The only "hurt" we suffer is from the liberal bias in the Political Left and Media. The truth of the matter is that the "Insergents" are more targeting the civilian population than us.

They figured out that when they shoot at us we shoot back, this scares them and for the most part have stopped this and have taken to killing innocent women and children in market places, nice.

Now go back to your brainwashing videos.

Answer 4

We're not willing to fight the guerilla type war our enemies are adept in, and we're not willing to annihilate enemy strongholds and occupy them long-term. We are happy getting pin-pricked and prodded, but have no will or inclination to beat the #)&! out of those more than willing to kill and die to defeat us.

For our enemy, war is an art, a calling, a personal journey, an act that one can find heroism and glory in.

For our boys and girls overseas, war is not any of these things. The US has managed to turn warfare into a sanitized chess game with no clear path or likelihood of all-out victory. Victory only comes upon the defeat and capitulation of your enemy, and to date, we have not put the squeeze on our enemy to make them capitulate. I suspect the US military is content to wait out the insurgency in Iraq and hope time and frustration with violence and death will erode the support the insurgency has.

I don't think that's going to happen. It's unfortunate to decide to use force, but when you do decide to use it, it's even more tragic when you don't use it to gain and secure peace. That's where we are today.

Answer 5

because it grow to be no longer merely the "large DADDY" who grow to be killing our troops. we are battling non secular finatices. we are battling an theory in a community the position thoughts very last for one hundred's of years. we may be able to win. it's going to be not person-friendly and it will be a conflict of attrition, yet with fortitude we may be able to win. WWII did not ceace with the signing of slightly of paper. It stopped after each small band of rebels grow to be wipped out. We were no longer less than the same constraints as we are on the prompt both. after we had a difficulty with a city , we fireplace bombed the city and got here in to %. out the products. it truly is a conflict which might want to be gained. the alternative is more effective Zarkowies, more effective beheadings, more effective grief. we may be able to win, yet we must have the fortitude to adhere it out for the lengthy haul.

Answer 6

Looking at the small picture of one-to-one, day-to-day accomplishments.
What happens when such a clever view looks at the WHOLE picture of the world's events? Do you realize where you will be 20 years from now? In a desolated desert area,with no infrastructure, fighting your neighbors? Or still fixating on single victories? Get more education.

Answer 7

Because of the media you would think that. The media is run by liberals who would rather see the country fail than win the war on Iraq because if we fail that means our republican leader has failed.

Also b/c of the liberals, we are forced to use our soldiers not as the worriers there trained to be, but rather a police force. The few failings we have in Iraq are not do to a lack of training, but rather the lack force they can use on the enemies

Answer 8

It's a myth since the death rate from enemy attacks in Iraq is 1/3 of the average population in the U.S. It's more dangerous to live in the U.S. than fight in Iraq from the general statistics. More Americans die from automobile accidents each year than died in Vietnam in 10 years. Medical errors kill about 100,000 people in the U.S. each year. 500,000 Americans died from medical mistakes in the U.S. while less than 2,500 Americans died in Iraq (not all from hostile fire) during the same amount of time. Military acction probably doesn't even enter the top 100 causes of death in the U.S.

Answer 9

Because the liberals have our hands tied. In addition, these people are hiding behind civilians, and wearing civilian clothes..They fight like cowards and so we will loose troops. Its war...and its inevitable...BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE....America is WINNING this war and have been every since the beginning..And know this...For every 1 American that has been killed in action, 50 terrorists have been killed....Now whose your DADDY

Answer 10

Conventional tactics versus an invisible force of combatants