Re: USA develops space-based weapons


Alan Anderson wrote:
"Ed Kyle" <edkyle99@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Rand Simberg wrote:
Yes, and it will continue right up to the election, since much of the
purpose of the mayhem is to influence it. You ignore what their
losses are. They can't continue at that rate of attrition
indefinitely. This is their Tet.

Hogwash. The U.S. isn't making a dent against the insurgency.
Perhaps several thousands lost versus millions of available
combatants.

http://www.geocities.com/launchreport/delta4.html

"Reliable figures for insurgent casualities are not available. The
Pentagon stopped supplying figures for what it called "non-compliant
Iraqi forces" in mid-summer 2003."

Would you like to try that URL again? It doesn't say anything like what
you just quoted.

Re: Tet. Vietnam lost millions over the years, but won the war.

They "won", but not because we lost. It was because we quit. We could
do the same thing in Iraq, but it would definitely not be a military
loss.

If the U.S. had not "quit", it would still be fighting there (if it had

not torn itself apart or bankrupted itself by now). Robert McNamara,
the Secretary of Defense at the time, has said that he determined
early on that the war could not be won. A lot of armchair generals
believe otherwise, but I suspect that most Vietnam vets and
historians agree with McNamara.

- Ed Kyle

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