Re: USA develops space-based weapons

"Ed Kyle" <edkyle99@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

:
:Rand Simberg wrote:
:> On 1 Nov 2006 19:05:55 -0800, in a place far, far away, "Ed Kyle"
:> <edkyle99@xxxxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
:> way as to indicate that:
:>
:> >> >> >The U.S. forces are everywhere, but nowhere, the net
:> >> >> >result being that they control nothing - like the British
:> >> >> >during the Revolution, or the French and Americans
:> >> >> >in Indochina. This is what losing a war looks like at
:> >> >> >first, then it gets worse. The insurgents are on home
:> >> >> >ground, supported by the local populace.
:> >> >>
:> >> >> Really? The "populace" supports a movement that is murdering them
:> >> >> daily?
:> >> >
:> >> >It is a civil war. Sunni versus Shia.
:> >>
:> >> That doesn't constitute a "movement." It constitutes at least *two*.
:> >
:> >"Movement" was your word.
:>
:> You didn't object to it. It's nonsensical to say that "the populace"
:> supports a civil war, since that implies that there is a unitary
:> "populace."
:
:I said that the populace supports the insurgency, not the civil war.

Just which 'populace' and which 'insurgency' are you referring to? The
overwhelming majority of the populace does *NOT* support 'the
insurgency'.

--
"Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar
territory."
--G. Behn
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