How come the insurgents are so brave?

Question

They fight for free and the American soldier only fights for a paycheck. Guess who will win?

Answer 1

Once again, you're wrong.

(1) The going rate for setting up an IED is between $200-$1000. Lumping all criminal gangs, religious fanatics, paramilitary organizations, and embittered local tribesmen as all "insurgents" is your first mistake, but since you haven't been there and don't really take a hard look at either your source material or don't do much footwork outside of Michigan (if that really is your home state) it's not hard to see why you don't know better.

(2) Criminal gangs will often supplement their paychecks with kidnapping, extortion, and murder for hire. I've seen multiple instances of this happen and responded to numerous calls. Insurgents do not "fight for free". Kidnap victims will often be "traded up" to a more polticized group for a tidy profit. Extortion and highway robbery (we're talking fake checkpoints and entire families in minivans held up at gunpoint) are the norm. That's really not bravery.

Once again, you've trapped yourself in a false dichtonomy between the American military as this monolithic entity (which is NOT the same military you supposedly joined in the 60s, I don't care what you think) and every gun-swinger in the Middle East as part of this monolithic national resistance movement a la the Vietminh. That is not what the facts on the ground say.

Really, you're just trolling for angry responses, but you're not doing yourself any better by demonstrating how far out of touch you are with facts on the ground. Some footwork on the ground instead of on your palette would do you a whole lot more good.

Answer 2

because of screwed up government and how our protection rigidity works-the marines have been probally to afraid to surely shoot the insurgents. Afraid they're going to finally end up in a courtroom room someplace protecting their movements. What a conflict You human beings have given us. deliver us there and then query us interior the way we do our activity. Media is a gadget to no longer be used on the battlefield. Politicians don no longer belong there the two. conflict is conflict, enable this is.

Answer 3

Insurgents are martyrs willing to die for their religion and cause. Believe me, if another country came into the U.S. and attempted to invade and take over our government, U.S. soldiers would be as brave as the insurgents in Iraq. Insurgents don't fear death which is a great motivation indeed to fight bravely. Suicide bombers are only too eager to fulfill their duties as tehy know they will be rewarded in their heaven.

Answer 4

The American soldier.

Answer 5

It is so brave to kill citizens out shopping by blowing them selves up.As for fighting for free The families of these bombers get $ 25,000 dollars.If you don't like our military get out & find some place that haves a military that fights for free.JOIN IT.

Answer 6

there fighting for there country , having there country back is an a paycheck for an insurgent

Answer 7

in every war waged by the US government against a foreign nation, a counter-insurgency operation has immediately been implemented. Counter-insurgency operations are required in such circumstances because when a country is invaded, an insurgency of some form invariably arises to defend the country. Such insurgents are very difficult for an invading army to defeat given the extensive support and collaboration they enjoy from the general population.

Essentially, an invading army finds itself at war with the population of the country they are invading rather than a separate and independent insurgency. Strategies developed over the years to deal with such situations has come to be known as "counter-insurgency", and include attempts to identify divisions within the society, usually religious, political or ethnic, however insignificant, and to then attempt to provoke these divisions. Of course, in the scenario where a country has been invaded by a foreign military force, such internal divisions become almost nonexistent as the population unites to oppose the invaders, as is the case in Iraq. For this reason, counter-insurgency tactics designed to sow discord must be fabricated and generally involve the creation of a fake insurgency by the military intelligence apparatus of the invading force.

This fake insurgency is made up of groups of armed militia who are paid by the invading force to target and murder distinct groups among the population, again, along religious, ethnic or political lines. In the case of Iraq, we see militia 'death squad' attacks on both Sunni and Shia members of the Iraq population which are blamed on the real insurgency or al-qaeda in Iraq. The hoped-for benefits of such brutal tactics are to demoralise and confuse the real insurgency and the population that supports them, to embroil the real insurgency in an internecine conflict, and, in the specific case of Iraq, to promote the US government's claim that al-Qaeda is still active and poses a deadly threat to civlised societies everywhere. The above scenario is EXACTLY what we are seeing in Iraq with the fake counter-insurgency death squads being controlled, financed and run by the CIA out of the Iraqi interior ministry, or rather, the US government's interior ministry in Iraq. A recent article serves well to prove the assertion that "al-Qaeda" in Iraq is indeed a creation of the US forces that are currently controlling the Iraqi conflict.

Answer 8

Right. And you to could be a winner if you just go and fight right along side those brave and daring insurgents.
You have to be real brave to plant road side bombs and detonate them from a safe distance.

Answer 9

They are not brave! If u call hiding behind children and Women brave. And most of them do get payed. ive been to Iraq and watched ther TV, with a translator. Stop paying attention to all of what CNN is telling you.

Answer 10

the majority of Iraqi want us out .......... with every door kicked open in the middle of the night ......... with every Iraqi citizen being riffle butted and stripped searched ............ with every village being demolished by us troops ........ the insurgency going to swell ........ hell, this people have a moral right on their side ..... this is their land ......... what the hell are we doing over there ? ...... we lost the moral high ground when no WMD were found ......... all this crap about bringing democracy to the people of Iraq ............. well they are liberated now ..........THEY WANT US OUT! ........... are you people so blind that you cannot see ........ this is not our war ......... it's Nam all over again!