The Iraqi Strategy Problems and Solutions
#16
Posted 29 August 2007 - 03:21 AM
And Civ, I'm not indicating it's purely about race, certainly it's about money and power too, but racism plays a part in it. Our imperialism is just a new form of the same stuff the British empire was doing, and racism excuses some of it, the belief that some people are too backwards to pick their own leaders was one held by the English in India, and one espoused by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger during their conversations about the election of Salvador Allende.
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#17
Posted 29 August 2007 - 04:59 AM
They…won?
That being said, the United States is not under occupation and you don’t have people dying outside your doorstep day in and day out.
Hey; stop insulting pigs!
Two exceptions; the Serbs were bombed twice. Personally I think the U.S is against everyone who isn’t a white, rich, protestant man. This also reminds me of a paragraph I once read by Nebojsa Malic:
“The greatest trick the Empire [the United States government] ever pulled in the Balkans was convincing its feuding nations it was on their side. In truth, though it sometimes tends to play favorites, the Empire has no friends, only servants and victims.”
This post has been edited by Cobnat: 29 August 2007 - 05:01 AM
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#18
Posted 29 August 2007 - 12:31 PM
I hadnt noticed. But it's a personal preference. Some people would rather die or starve than see their country languish under foreign occupation, whereas some people would submit just to live in peace. You really can't blame those that don't want to get into it and just live their lives, but I can easily see why resistance is necessary.
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#19
Posted 30 August 2007 - 10:41 AM
Explain to me why you do not pick up a gun and fight then? Is it because there is nothing to fight against in the United States? Is it because there is a lack of guns? Is it because you don’t how to use a firearm?
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#20
Posted 30 August 2007 - 01:03 PM
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#21
Posted 30 August 2007 - 02:50 PM
He stole his tactics from the Goths and the Huns; simple.
Also, if Guevara's a doctor, then so is Mr. Seuss.
#22
Posted 30 August 2007 - 03:38 PM
Please; Guerrilla tactics and strategies existed hundreds of years before Guevara. As for the decaying government; the United States government is decaying but unless there is armed resistance then I doubt it will fall within the next hundred years without massive repercussions on the civilian populace. Do your people a favour and revolt.
And everyone stole their ideas from Sun-Tzu.
This post has been edited by Cobnat: 30 August 2007 - 03:55 PM
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#23
Posted 30 August 2007 - 06:18 PM
Sorry, Cobnat, but you're wrong; the Goths never heard of either Sun-Tzu or his tactics. The Huns, however, having come from some uncertain land in Asia, might have...
As for Guevara, he was (to make an analogy of things) John the Baptist to Castro's Jesus.
#25
Posted 30 August 2007 - 08:14 PM
As for Guevara, he was (to make an analogy of things) John the Baptist to Castro's Jesus.
Give the man a cigar!
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#26
Posted 30 August 2007 - 09:57 PM
Yes yes, and he stole the idea of freeing people from oppression from George Washington, and he stole the idea of becoming a doctor of medicine from Hypocrates. If you're just going to mindlessly argue against anything Che Guevara did there's really little point continuing this.
I'm not going to even rebut yet another baseless slander. You can either do some research and find out why that's a dipshit statement, or continue your ignorant assertions and continue to be a dipshit. Either way is fine for me. You can argue ethics or wether he succeeded, but claiming that he, what, STOLE a medical degree and then faked working in a leper colony and then pretended to be the medical officer of Castro's band, that takes a disdain for facts that would be frowned upon anywhere but in the Bush cabinet.
Cobnat- You stole the idea of making analogies from... uhhh... the guy who had the idea to make analogies.
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#27
Posted 31 August 2007 - 06:35 AM
No shit; I learn from the best which happen to be the first.
My point is though that people like Guevara and Mao got most of their ideas from Ancient Strategists like Sun-Tzu. Guevara did not bring anything new to the world of war and politics.
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#28
Posted 31 August 2007 - 08:03 AM
Agreed; he tagged up with Castro to be his lackey. Basically, he was Castro's vizier (spelling?), if you will.
#29
Posted 31 August 2007 - 11:07 AM
But the people who support Che and the likes of him often denounce everything the US has done in the last 50 years.
I saw a picture of a guy wearing that famous shirt with Che's picture on it. He was in a rally to close down Guantanamo. Thing is, Che used much worse tactics, he was the over-seer of Castro's execution squad.
If you denounce the US for barbarism, then you can't support Che's cause. You can denounce the US for being rich and greedy or whatever, but not for being butchers.
As for tactics, Che wrote a few books on Guerilla Warefare and studied it well. He taught farmers and common men how to be fight battles. So he wasn't a hack. He took theory and put it to use, and in the process made up his own theory, which is published now.
I don't hate the man or even hold it against him, I think torture and the likes of it are common in war, a natural extention of it. Only douche liberal hippies actually cry about this shit. Which Che was not. I wouldn't support him simply because I don't belive in his marxist theories.
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#30
Posted 31 August 2007 - 02:01 PM
As for me, I'm not a big fan of people who trounce on others' liberties, so Guevara isn't a guy I'd exactly have tea and biscuits with...
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