ORIGINAL: Curtis Lemay
ORIGINAL: ColinWright
I take it you don't find our actions in Iraq evidence that brainlessness is equally distributed across the political spectrum.
I can't come up with a case of it ever being done better. Of course, it's hard to come up with relatively equivalent circumstances, but try comparing to Yugoslavia 41-45.
For that matter, try comparing to Poland 39 or France 40. Both cases so exalted they coined the term "Blitzkrieg" and losses were considered miraculously light. Now check the German dead totals. And that's without factoring in the resistance that followed.
The Iraq War is being held to an absurd standard.
We're talking about apples and oranges here. I have few problems with our actual invasion -- either in principle or execution. It's the post-game show I have problems with. However, this would seem to be exactly the sort of topic we're not to discuss here, so...
However, as to 'the resistance that followed.' I won't comment on Poland, and I certainly won't comment on Yugoslavia, but I can't resist noting that it wasn't until August 1941 that the German forces occupying France logged their first fatality. In other words, zero (0) losses to resistance activity for over a year.
