Re: USA develops space-based weapons

"Ed Kyle" <edkyle99@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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: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."
:> :
:> :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'.
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:75% of Sunni's do support the insurgency.

I'd bet that's an incorrect statement stemming from some journalist's
ignorance and should actually read 75% of ARAB Sunnis. The Kurds are
Sunnis, you see, and definitely do NOT support said insurgency. The
population of Iraq is around 35% Sunni and around 17% or so Kurdish.
That leave around 18%-20% of the country as Arab Sunni.

So that 75% amounts to around 15% of the population of the country AT
MOST, which is hardly a big enough proportion to claim that in Iraq
"the populace supports the insurgency". It's why I asked the
question.

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

As I said, I bet someone misunderstood that number...

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with its passionate urge toward war, is loose in the world.
It is the enemy of democracy; it is the enemy of all the
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as individuals and organizations, to resist this."
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