Steeplerot
Lifer
Originally posted by: Sunbird
Have just 1500 US soldiers died in Iraq? (Sorry, i don't know the figures)
Thats a really small number. Many more died in Vietnam, and storming up those beaches in Normandy, and lets not forget those hellhole Pacific Islands. And more die on the roads annually too.
Why doesn't the US send all possible troops to Iraq and totally conquer every inch of the place? And then sort everything out, if they really are interested in sorting things out, that is.
Becasue this is not convential warfare or a liberation it is a occupation.
we already "conquered" Iraq now the messy part of being caught in someone elses country and homes with a resisting force is on the table.
The only way to stop the iraqi resistance fighters is genocide.
Or to leave them to their own self-determination.
But it is obvious this cannot be done and get the oil too.
SO now we watch the iraqis bleed our armed forces and the oil wells get sabotaged.
We have been here before as have all imperialist nations, very surprising US fell into the same trap and did not learn the lessons europe learned so long ago.
"Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it."
You cannot force democracy and freedom at the end of a gun.
It has to come from within, and we are not even setting a good example sadly.