Why is it the Rag tag Insurgents keep coming back to fight after the USA hit them 100%?

Question

6 well armed Military men from the most powerful nation on earth were killed by flintstone type men wearing bluejeans and tennis shoes. How can this be? (Note: This happened in Afghanistan)

Answer 1

Put simply, the reason why insurgents have such a competitive advantage, and are able to challenge the most powerful military in the world, is because, number one, the U.S. military is not allowed to utilize 100% of its prowess, and number two, the U.S. military is structured to engage other standing militaries in combat, not guerilla fighters. The latter point is a lesson we should have learned in Vietnam, but as much of history attests, the United States doesn’t learn from history.

The U.S. military is stymied in its endeavors to employ its vast arsenal to vanquish the enemy. This, in contrast to the lies propounded by the neocons, is not the result of politically correct pacifism. No the impediments that prevent our military from marshaling its full force has to do with the fact that this government has no intention of winning the war on terror, or establishing lasting peace in Iraq. As long as conflict exists, it gives big business the right to profit off of exploits on foreign soil. Nothing could be more counterproductive to the aims of corporate America, the true puppet masters of our government, than peace.

In summary it is a lack of will, or rather a will counter the one necessary to resolve this problem, and the fighting of the wrong type of war (i.e. conventional as opposed to guerilla), that has caused the insurgency to make such gains against the greatest fighting force in the world, and not a shortcoming of our men and women in uniform.

Answer 2

It's the nature of insurgency or as we now call it, "Asymmetric Warfare".

When told that neither the North Vietnamese Army nor the Viet Cong won a single major battle against the US during the war in Vietnam, Brig Gen Vo Nguyen Giap the commander of the NVA agreed this was so. He then remarked it was also irrelevant. The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong ultimately won by not losing. The US (and earlier France) lost by not winning. Most Military Historians agree the US could not have "won" the war in Vietnam. (Unless it chose to destroy the entire country).

It should be remembered that the US Revolutionary war was won by the US because the British could not destroy the Continental Army. Most Military historians agree thet George Washington's greatest achievement as a military leader was that he kept the Continental Army together and did not let the superior British Army inflict a devastating loss upon his troops. America won by not losing. Just like Afghanistan and Iraq.
The Taliban as well as those who wish us ill in Iraq could not hope to compete with the US military in anything approaching a conventional fight. (Remember how Iraq faired in the first Gulf War?)

Answer 3

I doubt if Fred Flint-stone & Barney Rubble used bare hands

or were throwing lemons at the 6 soldiers!!

Blue Jeans and Tennis shoes ??

Is this not the derigur dress code for Anti-War Trolls and New Age Hippy's???

Answer 4

Because maybe the insurgents had guns?

Answer 5

Do you have a real source? Not some communist, radical muslim, radical islam rag. A real source.

How do you know this?

Answer 6

72 virgins!

Answer 7

The odds kind of suck when your enemy is willing to blow themselves up just to kill you. Hopefully they will run out of people before we do!

Answer 8

Since when do you care, it's apparent you prefer spitting on the troops...

Answer 9

I guess no one is invincible ??