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Quote by: RickSp Exactly. Sending even the most highly trained Marines into a guerilla war in a country with such a vastly different culture, language and religion, especially when the Marines are stretched too thin to start with, almost guarantees that this sort of massacre will take place sooner or later. The US "Rule of Engagement" encourage it. |
And the most glaring comparison with Vietnam is how the "enemies" and "friendlies" are the same people. This is a frigging Steven King novel where the people who love you and the ones who want to slaughter you are the same and you are right in the middle of them. I can't imagine something much more horrific than a group of people (1/2 of them "weekend warriors") who are forced to go to a place where the same people they are supposedly defending against "insurgents" are the ones planting bombs under their cars. A situation where every face that appears around every corner might be the face of your killer and you can't shoot first is impossible, IMO, and the fact that you cannot LEAVE makes it worse. Morons like Bush seem to think these people are machines. They are not. And he already KNOWS they are not indestructible.