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Re: The Halys thing again (none / 0)

I don't know, those Iraqi civvies seem to have been more successful than the Iraqi Army at both killing and injuring Troops and destroying armored vehicles.

That's because you can't fight insurgents in a conventional way. It's much more like police work. And when you actually do fight them, you just kill lots of civvies and create more insurgents. Now, that won't matter if you're leaving.

So they are suddenly no longer going to be fighting insurgents?

No, they will be killing everyone in their way. Far easier than finding out who the bad guys are.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Thu Oct 25th, 2007 at 07:12:46 PM EST
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Re: The Halys thing again (none / 0)

I have to agree with you in this thread. The US will go genocidal on the Iraqis if they have to in order to evacuate. If they don't, they're toast.

It's not like the WSJ hasn't editorialised on the need to get genocidal in order to beat the insurgency.

We have met the enemy, and it is us — Pogo

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Oct 25th, 2007 at 07:23:10 PM EST
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Re: The Halys thing again (none / 0)

Well, I wouldn't say genocidal. That would imply intent.

I'm thinking more like in "collateral damage and we just don't care".

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Thu Oct 25th, 2007 at 07:40:59 PM EST
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Re: The Halys thing again (none / 0)

Though of course, if they want to beat the insurgency, instead of just getting out, genocide is not a bad policy. It might be the only policy that works.

Bribe'em, nuke'em or leave'em the Hell alone.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Thu Oct 25th, 2007 at 07:44:43 PM EST
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