Re: USA develops space-based weapons


Rand Simberg wrote:
On 4 Nov 2006 22:08:36 -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:

Fred J. McCall wrote:
: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".

The majority of the Sunni populace in about 1/3rd of the country
overwhelmingly supports the insurgents. Million of people, those.
That is what I mean by "populace".

U.S. soldiers must operate in those regions, including Baghdad,
surrounded and outnumbered by insurgents and insurgent
supporters.

If you don't believe me, or ABC News, then go to the Pentagon press
room and ask for a list of U.S. war dead. This list gets an average of

nearly four new names added to it every day now. Seven yesterday.

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.

Ah Rand, we lost in VietNam, as the South, whom we were protecting, was
overrun and the North took over the country. Tet was no feather in our
cap other than it cost the NV and VC more than it cost us. My
suggestion, stop making comparisons between the VietNam War and the war
in Iraq due to what we know happened in VietNam and what we don't want
to happen in Iraq.

Eric

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