tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6980742.post113496779807475549..comments2023-12-28T14:43:54.874+00:00Comments on malung-tv-news: The Insurgents targetting improves...DAVE BONEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08207525118627449541noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6980742.post-1135028845857223612005-12-19T21:47:00.000+00:002005-12-19T21:47:00.000+00:00It would've been more like the US invading Taiwan ...It would've been more like the US invading Taiwan after Pearl Harbor.<BR/><BR/><I>Shite and Awe</I>Indigobusinesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6980742.post-1135004659204782922005-12-19T15:04:00.000+00:002005-12-19T15:04:00.000+00:00Oh, and you can bet the Nazis or the Nipponese wou...Oh, and you can bet the Nazis or the Nipponese would have blown that fuck-wit Clarkson to pieces with typical Nazi / Japanese efficiency, respectively.I.:.S.:.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05110012900695010338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6980742.post-1135004415108392402005-12-19T15:00:00.000+00:002005-12-19T15:00:00.000+00:00Unless maybe between Germany's blitzkrieg against ...Unless maybe between Germany's <I>blitzkrieg</I> against the Polish, and "shock and awe".I.:.S.:.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05110012900695010338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6980742.post-1135004299479379372005-12-19T14:58:00.000+00:002005-12-19T14:58:00.000+00:00That was a 'real' war, though, with more-or-less e...That was a 'real' war, though, with more-or-less evenly matched opponents, and in the case of Nazi Germany, technologically even more advanced. Britain alone, outnumbered and outgunned, with all their equipment left at Dunkirk, forces scattered across their colonial holdings across the globe, initially supported only by lend-lease, the terms of which were hardly generous...<BR/><BR/>Contrast with the world's greatest military power pulverising a technologically inferior army suffering from lack of basic spares for their tanks and other equipment, the dreaded Scuds a joke, wide-spread low morale and mass desertions of the under-fed and under-paid Iraqi troops, slaughtered in their thousands by laser-guided death from above.<BR/><BR/>There is no analogy to be drawn between World War II and the Gulf wars, none whatsover.I.:.S.:.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05110012900695010338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6980742.post-1134971468358303082005-12-19T05:51:00.000+00:002005-12-19T05:51:00.000+00:00... the US invading Iraq after 911 would have rese...<EM>... the US invading Iraq after 911 would have resembled the US attacking China after Pearl Harbour...</EM><BR/><BR/>In fact, the US invading Iraq after 9/11 <B>did</B> very closely resemble the US attacking Germany and Italy after Pearl Harbor. Neither had a "collaborative operational relationship" with the Pearl Harbor attack.<BR/><BR/>I guess that ruins his point, though.The Scrutinatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11392067007625645804noreply@blogger.com