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Originally Posted by RPKESQ
What, you don't know how to do research? Too stupid or too lazy?
Let's list some of the US military opportunities since WW II.
Korea = Stalemate
Hungary = We could not help them
Viet Nam = Stalemate leading to Complete Loss
Czechoslovakia = We could not help them
Granada = Yea! We're Number 1!!!!!!!!!
Panama = Yea! We're number 1, again!!!! (We sure kick ass on minuscule countries)
Gulf War 1 = Yea! We're number !!!!!!!!!
Afghanistan = Stalemate/slipping into loss at present
Irag = Work in progress/to soon to tell
Georgia = We could not help them
Not all that impressive for the world's number 1 power now is it? And before the neocons flame me for dissing our soldiers, I'm not, I was one of them, were you? Military success is dependent on many more attributes and factors than just the quality of the soldiers.
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Your assessment of a classic insurgent war shows a lack of understanding. The current situation, the current nature of modern warfare, the actors and the interrelated actions would clearly indicate that you fail to understand that Gulf War 1, Afghanistan (which is not in a stalemate, its called a counterinsurgency), and Iraq and Georgia are all related to a conflict that has been going on clearly since the early 1980s. Its just that it is ugly and fought in arenas that are foreign to most Americans, like our media and our political parties as well as some hell hole wadi POS land that most would just like to forget.