why are anti american hate monger so stupid?

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Originally posted by A Black Falcon
Did you read the rest of my post? I cover a lot of issues... :)

Anyway... yes, its not nearly as bad as Vietnam. There is no nation funding the resistance like there was there... some nations (in the Middle East) are funding terrorism in smaller and surreptious ways, but not openly and nowhere near the extent that it was in Vietnam. But the guerrilla war aspect is similar... again, less bad in Iraq, but similar -- enemies blend in with the general population (which has widespread support for those radicals), strike when they can with bombs, etc... and like Vietnam we've won all the major battles (we did win every major battle in Vietnam, not that it mattered at all...). But so far, yes, this isn't nearly that bad... the problem is that as the occupation lasts longer hatred will grow, and popular resistance will grow... and with it more popular support of terrorism. Will they want Sadaam back? No! But they are Arabs, so they are very easily convinced that the US is evil... remember, we will never get the Arabs to truly accept us until the Israel/Palestine thing is settled.

There is no popular resistance in Iraq. There is nothing that even remotely resembles it.

As for Israel/Palestine, they will not accept us once it's settled, because they don't WANT it settled, nor do they even pretend to want it settled. They want Israel gone and they want to kill as many Jews as they can in the process. They will only accept us if we stand back and allow that to happen, and it's amazing how many people here actually like that idea. Their dislike of us is more fundamental than Israel, literally and figuratively: They hate us because we're not them. The Arab world hates us because they are a festering joke of a civilization and it just burns them that Western civilization (and of course, the US is Western Civilization incarnate) dominates the world to a degree that the Islamic Empires could only have dreamed of even at their peak. They're a childish, savage bunch of people, as a whole, and while that sounds like a gross generalization, once you realize that almost ALL of the world's major strife right now is taking place in the Middle East, it only rings truer. They'll come to accept us when and only when we conform to their backwards and insane ways of thinking and living, and God forbid that day ever comes.

And it is a major oversight and blunder because the administration just didn't expect this. If they had expected a long occupation and popular anger the war would NEVER have happened as it did... even this Bush would have admitted that his father had the right idea is securing international monetary support for war. I'm sure he still would have attacked Sadaam, but it would have been done differently, and I am sure that more attention would have been paid to the need to rebuild the infrastructure of the nation (power, water, bridges, police, government, army, etc...) -- they pretty much ignored those silly little niggling issues. Of course they could have seen this coming if they had looked, but they didn't want to see the obvious truth, so here we are... [/B]

The administration most definitely expected this. It's the news media and people in general that expected it was to be a perfect clean sweep. I recall the adminstration saying countless times that it would be a long and wide effort to solve Saddam and Iraq. And for crying out loud, we still control the nation in almost complete totality and there is absolutely no viable threat to our soveriegnty. All that these attacks accomplish is making the spineless whiners of the left think they have a leg to stand on in criticizing the war. Again, show me any example in history where such a thing was attempted and accomplished with such fast victory and such a minute loss of life.