#2 Marc Malone:
“. Guerrilla wars have heretofore been insoluble. I can’t think of even one that was crushed so thoroughly.”
The Malay Insurgency of the late 1950′s early 1960′s. The British decided to stay and fight the CT’s, (Communist Terrorists), in order to bequeath a functioning parliamentary democracy to Malaysia once they withdrew.
The 3rd Reich. It was censored, but the Allies were executing Operation Werewolf Nazi guerrillas up until 1947, and liberally jailing anyone who so much as uttered a “Sieg Heil” or whistled the “Horst Wessel Lied”.
And, the Confederate States of America, which insurgency, the Ku Klux Klan, has simmered on for decades, and morphed into a criminal racist group that doesn’t even remember that they were originally founded by Nathan Bedford Forrest as a querrila organization.
All three insurgencies, and all three unsuccesful in the face of an occupying force with overwhelming military might.
The operative word being “occupying”.
“The Dems would’ve bailed for sure.”
I disagree.
The Dems would never have went in the first place, and we’d still be dickin’ around with the pathetically laughable UN sanctions while Sadaam was busy pursuing whatever schemes he’d gotten into.
Including the reasonable assumption of subsidizing AQ, as long as their operations remained offshore from Iraq.
