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[95th Rifleman]

Originally Posted by Webstral

That particular shortcoming is widespread, though we're especially good at it. The analogy is especially applicable to what's happening now in Afghanistan and Iraq. Shock and awe, indeed. It takes more than a very strong single at the beginning to make a classic album.

Iraq in paticular made me cringe. The vast might of the US army, trained and equipped to fight WW3 agaist the Russians going straight into an insurgency.

The worst thing is that so many people told the high level planners what they where walking into and yet they still had the attitude that the Iraqis would just be grateful and give no trouble.

I remember an American friend telling me he thought it'd be like WW2 with Germany and Japan, America would liberate them and they would just do as they where told. He didn't like it when I voiced the opinion that a nation that is bombed into the stoneage tends to be more pliable than a nation you blitzkrieg to their capital and set up shop, I said it'd me more like France under German occupation than Japan under American.