If I've got my history right the US military has not done so well in limited wars like Vietnam because they are limited. Meaning we can't go wherever we want to destroy the enemy which means the enemy has us by the balls. So if we can't do whatever we feel is necessary to win the war on terror (like we did in WWII) how will the US ever win?
2006-10-06 07:18:04 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Well, obviously they are training in Iraq and Afghanistan as well. However, we all know it is impossible to ever completely win a guerilla war, so your question is merely rhetorical.
2006-10-06 07:22:33 · answer #1 · answered by senior citizen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no winning the Afghan war, the Iraq occupation, the war on terror abroad. I think that cons and dems alike would have rather seen a blanket bombing of the entire middle east back to the stone-age rather than these brutally "rummyminded" attempts at solving the problems. We need to get the flock outta there and concern ourselves with our own safety here within our borders. Other than the procurement of oil---why are we there? How bout if the plan was to be chaos? That way our defense company's could stay in business making missles and armaments. Halliburton will receive more and more no-bid contracts. All at the expense of American Soldiers lives and psyche's. Give that a thought.
2006-10-06 07:28:46 · answer #2 · answered by scottyurb 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you sit and examine all the blunders that this administration has let happen since the start of hostilities in 2003, your left with a sick disgusting feeling that they don't ever intend to win this war. For example, Bush says that he can't attack Pakistan because there a sovereign nation. Yet did that stop our military from bombing that village in Pakistan several months ago? Bush says he trusts and believes in the word of his commanders in the field. Ok. Yet Rumsfeld is increasingly taking decision making from these same men? Where is the logic behind that? It sure as h-ell isnt working.
2006-10-06 07:27:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you don't go fishing in the desert...
so why are we focusing on Iraq (which has few links to terror) in the war on terror?
your guess is as good as mine... but the problem here isn't that we're limited, as much as our leaders apparently have no idea where the terrorists are...
I mean my God, when your main way of fighting terror is to take over a country that there are no terrorists in and the terrorists actually have to travel to "fight"... it's a bit silly....
I mean they probably have an infinite number of poor teens that want to blow themselves up... killing them won't accomplish anything... but if you take out the leadership... you're getting somewhere...
why would anyone train in Iraq or Afghanistan when you could do it in Pakistan, where Osama most likely is, without any U.S. government interference?
2006-10-06 07:25:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Israel could maximum quite win. sure its real, back in 1973 Israel replaced right into a clean us of a and quite vulnerable. besides the indisputable fact that, because then Israel has develop into lots extra useful. popular Israel fights for its survival. None of Israel's acquaintances choose them there. So Israel is continuously decrease than attack giving their squaddies various journey. additionally, all men are conscripted into the Israeli military (they could serve interior the army to be a citizen of Israel). it is declared that Israel can volume a brilliant military in an particularly short volume of time. Israel additionally has the help of the U. S.. certainly, some specific forces contraptions pass to Israel to coach because of the fact Israel has develop into very solid at guerrilla conflict. on the different hand, Pakistan has develop into appreciably weaker. appropriate now, their us of a isn't in very solid shape. they might't even look after a college device. the two countries have nuclear weapons. actually, some years in the past, Pakistan replaced into virtually overrun by Al-Quida. actually, terrorist got here interior of miles of Islamabad (the capital) and the nuclear arsenal Pakistan has there.
2016-10-15 22:03:26 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Instead of rooting out terrorists covertly, the US just marched into iraq with guns blazing. What do you want, unlimited war?
2006-10-06 07:30:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh if only they were all training in Pakistan. Myself, I have a bad feeling they're training in every country (especially Iraq), and the U.S. defense industry and oil moguls are rubbing their hands in glee.
2006-10-06 07:26:21 · answer #7 · answered by socrates 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
News flash. Part of the reason we "lost" in Vietnam was because we had no backing at home. Liberals demonstrating and weakening American moral. The same thing is happening now.
2006-10-06 07:21:07 · answer #8 · answered by only p 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
nukes
2006-10-06 07:20:07 · answer #9 · answered by yo 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋