I think he is right about civil wars, and as he also mentions for the Israel/Palestine conflict (which basicly is a civil war), but this cannot be applied to the Iraq war (at least not 100%), since one of the war partys can retreat to a (more or less) unreachable place. Of course this is only true for the Americans, and…
American soldiers in Vietnam didn't have the motivation that the south did in the American civil war. The phenominon he suggests about fighting beyond a lost cause doesn't really apply to the vietnam war, as, it was not a lost cause for the VC cuz they prevailed, and American's abandoned the effort. Maybe I'm missing…
[ QUOTE ] Maybe I'm missing something... [/ QUOTE ] Naa, I think we are talking about the same thing. Of cause you can't compare the Vietnam-war with the American-civilwar. But that is exactly my point, the loser fights not always with the 'power of desperation', sometimes he can just retreat. And thats exactly why I think…
The articles were very interesting PaK - I definitely don't agree with a good deal of the author's underlying assumptions, some things were frustrating to read because it seems like he's just taking a big brush and painting his own world view over everything else. But definitely an intelligent individual and some of this…
so much meat there NoseRider i dunno where to start. I agree with most of what you said, though, I wouldn't agree that most of the Palestinians have a vested interest in conflict. It's easy to be a warmonger when you don't expierence the attrocities of war, we're guilty of that in western culture for the better part of 50…
It's also a question of what are you fighting for?....that impassions you to be so diehard. The South wanted to maintain their way of living. Iraq....the people that are fighting are Sunni Muslims who are a minority in Iraq, but were the ruling class that had perks under Saddam. Keep in mind the Sunni Muslims are killing…
[ QUOTE ] From Article: The blame lies at the doorstep of the neo-conservative war-hawks who persuaded the president that America should undertake a democratizing mission among a people who never once voted for their own leaders. [/ QUOTE ] This is a hard concept for some people to understand, or stomach, especially here.…