2006-08-20 12:04:02 · 6 answers · asked by Steph :-) 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
It would be absolute hell! The very thought of waiting for the next artillery round or 500# bomb to strike, leaves a person totally helpless, no matter what their station in life. A peasant women or a prime minister are on an even playing field when it comes to an all out assault such as this. It's no easier for civilians than it is for those people fighting the war. If you survive, it's because of the grace of God, or if that won't do, it's because you were damn lucky.
The attacks as described above, are only part of the misery of war. Homes bombed out, water, gas, sewer systems, electricity all destroyed. Exposure to cold and rain, snow and bitter cold, unbearable heat, or the scarcity of food and drink, all play a part to make life unbearable in war.
This is certainly something the citizens of Syria and Iran should be giving a lot of thought to about now. Their folly in keeping this war with Israel stirred up, could find them looking at the conditions just mentioned.
2006-08-20 12:25:18 · answer #1 · answered by briang731/ bvincent 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't know. I try to imagine it, what living with such fear and uncertainty must be like. I wonder if I would have the mental strength to make it through, if I wasn't killed.
Survival is a strong instinct, maybe the strongest. But, if you have no hope of a better future, and the people you love are dead or separated from you by a war, the will to continue must be hard to find, sometimes. It's not surprising that so many people give in to hate; it must be the only thing some of them have left.
I hope I never have to find out.
2006-08-20 19:30:51 · answer #2 · answered by functionary01 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not think. I know. War is hell on Earth. War is about killing. Our service people do the job, they follow orders. Life for all of them is about staying alive just one more day. Life is also about not knowing or even seeing the enemy. Just like Nam. We lost 58,000 in Nam and as a Nation and as Godly people we learned nothing from that loss.
Guerrilla warfare can not be won.
2006-08-20 19:16:33 · answer #3 · answered by jl_jack09 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask someone living in the inner city of LA, Detroit, Chicago or New York. More Americans are murdered in these cities than in Iraq. I would rather walk through Baghdad, than Detroit.
2006-08-20 19:18:24 · answer #4 · answered by rikv77 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have no idea, I think you would have to actually live in the middle to know how they feel. Anything else is just a bad guess.
2006-08-20 19:32:28 · answer #5 · answered by Wolfpacker 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it wouldn't be very fun i'll tell you that.
2006-08-20 20:16:09 · answer #6 · answered by one glove 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋