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</span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (G. Adams,)
What I see as difficult with supporting the troops is basically that you are declaring "I hope they can kill quicker than there enemy". Now I was against Hussein, but I am not against the guerrillas (although I don't think they should have started a war till the end of year, at least give the coalition a chance to fulfill its promises). I obviously don't want to see the soldiers killed, but neither do I want them killing civillians, nor guerillas who are taking up arms on behlaf of their people. It comes down to supporting one group simply because of their nationality, which I refuse to do. So I think it is best to say I hope they come home safe.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>

That's what I've been saying for years. It's a lesson we have never learned. From Vietnam to Korea and now in the Mid East, we have always had the superior firepower and the best weapons going, but we are not equipped to handle situations where individuals (the enemy, freedom fighters, insurgents or whatever you want to call them) mingle among the average civilians as they do their killing. You can't single out a man with an AK-47 under his robe from 30,000 feet in a group of innocents, and you can't do it on the ground either. Our military is historically rooted in the ability to kill a RECOGNIZABLE enemy. A German uniform, a Zero, the Union or Confederate uniform or even a Soviet Missile.
As for supporting one nationality, in the Mid East it's more ethnicity than the country you live in. In Iraq, the Sunnis and Shiites despise each other, but Bush's boys seem to think we can create an Iraqi government from these and other groups distrustful of each other. Of course, giving the power to one group is senseless.

So there you have it. We shouldn't have gone in. We weren't trained for this kind of war, and now we can't get out or it will get even worse for us.