What wins a conflict any time, firepower or conviction?

Question

Have we not learned a damn thing from 6000 years of history?
It truly doesn't matter, if each year we spend 1 Trillion or a penny, or another 20 years in Iraq, 25,9 Million of the 26 million people there don't want us. What are we waiting for, Christmas, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny?

To the guy with the indians in 1800, they where killed by European diseases, not by guns. Jamestown seddelrs where so sick, that form the first 6000, only 200 survived and infected the entire continent, with Malaria and others carp.

To the guy with the indians in 1800, they where killed by European diseases, not by guns. Jamestown sedlers where so sick, that from the first 6000, only 200 survived and infected the entire continent, with Malaria and others carp.

To the guy with the indians in 1800, they where killed by European diseases, not by guns. Jamestown sedlers where so sick, that from the first 6000, only 200 survived and infected the entire continent, with Malaria and other sicknesses

Answer 1

Take your pick
Why is it that people like the answerer above cannot seem to grasp the fact that Iraq was a secular country before the invasion and the most westernised of all the Arab countries .Women there were not forced to wear burkahs and Muslims and Christians lived together in peace .Iraq made no threats towards any country in the west and any religion was alowed there
Thanks to the invasion out of a million and a quarter Iraqi Christians only 0.8 % are left the rest have been killed or had to leave in fear of their lives .

Answer 2

To your question-between the two neither will win every time but the two together would be unbeatable.
As for the political comment, where do you get the "fact" that 25.9 of the 26 million people don't want us there? Even the newspapers when they do the "man in the street" stuff there have found that many people do see a need for the US presence for a time. They can't speak out publicly because they or there family's would be killed or tortured for saying it. If 25.9 of the 26 million people really didn't want us there why would the terrorist or "freedom fighters" have to kill so many of the civilians? This is what terrorism is about and the terrorist and fanatics there are using it very well to sway public opinion here. A friend is there now and is part of the advisory group to the government and he says honestly that most people, even the politicians who say otherwise in public, want the Americans there until they can settle things down and then they want us to leave but to do so now would allow the extremist on both sides of the political/religious spectrum to take the country into chaos and civil war.

Answer 3

Obviously, you missed one point in history, which totally disproves your point. If you recall in that small country, back in the late 1800's called the United States, there was a "conflict" going on where the US military with their modern weapons fought battle after battle with the American Indians, who had bows and arrows and a whole bunch of conviction. Do you recall who finally won? Do you speak Apache as a second language?
The problem is that we don't learn from past mistakes. All we need to do is fly over Iraq and drop thousands of leaflets telling everyone that at 12 O'clock on August 30th, the US will conduct saturation bombing on Baghdad. Everyone is instructed to leave the city through checkpoints. Have the military surround the city and check all persons for weapons. Once the date and time arrives, drop every bomb that we can, leveling the entire city. Then go back and spend a few hundred million and rebuild it. Let the people back in...and surprise...no more enemy.

Answer 4

The battle may not always be to the strong or the race to the swiftest, but that's the way to bet. (I think that was Mark Twain).

Nothing wins every time. There are nine principles of war, and sometimes maximizing one of them will win.

What does happen every time is that when an outnumbered force prevails, it is usually remembered. History doesn't make much of lopsided battles that are won by the overwhelming force.

Answer 5

A good combination of firepower ,resolve and conviction.!
there has always been war and as long as there is more that one type of thinking in the world -there will always be war.
I personally do not want to learn another language or be forced to study another religion or give up any of my freedoms.
If I were a young woman today you can bet that the Army would be teaching me how to fight for our country and our freedom !!!! Now Just WHO DO YOU THINK IT IS THAT DO NOT WANT US OVER THERE -AIN'T THE GOOD GUYS !

Answer 6

When you have friends and relatives that died in peace-keeping missions you don't want to be anymore involved in conflicts that are not your problem... You StdMF think that you are not guilty for the atrocities that take place daily in other corners of the world but your buck buys the bullets... You are a proud American fighting against TERRORISM but there you are a terrorist ... U dumb ***...

What if the war would start inside the USA, with so many immigrants that are not working for US but for themselves and for their families (many don't share the American way of seeing the world), with so many KKK members, with so many religious fanatics, with so many gangs etc. Then what? You will be happy to receive the help of a billion Chinese and European soldiers?
I think not...You will hate them for interfering or you will join them in profits, and spoils of war...

Answer 7

I guess you are a General?

Or at least a commander on the ground in Iraq so that you can qualify those statistics?

Perhaps you work at the Iraq desk at the CIA?

None of the above? Then I guess you don't have a clue.

Answer 8

uhm what?
I guess the same arguement works for education, health care, environmental issues, economy.......stop spending money on them because 6000 years of history has taught us.................
oh and firepower and conviction the answer is yes.
It does matter about the size of the fight in the dog and you never want to bring a knife to a gun fight.

Answer 9

You want to wear a burka and convert? Go for it, I choose not to.

Answer 10

Ditto, my sentiments exactly. WTF?