Re: USA develops space-based weapons


Fred J. McCall wrote:
"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."
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: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'.

75% of Sunni's do support the insurgency.

"http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=2470183";

"Sept. 20, 2006 - A confidential Pentagon assessment finds that
an overwhelming majority of Iraq's Sunni Muslims support the
insurgency that has been fighting against U.S. troops and the
Iraqi government, ABC News has learned.

Officials won't say how the assessment was made but found that
support for the insurgency has never been higher, with approximately
75 percent of the country's Sunni Muslims in agreement."

- Ed Kyle

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