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Originally Posted by Manx
This line of reasoning is amazing, really. That it is stated that the morale of the opposition is bolstered by the anti-war crowd in the U.S. and that this is the primary, if not sole, reason that the war has been so bitter. Ignoring, of course, the nature of modern armed conflict between a large powerful force and a small weak force. A nature that inevitably includes guerilla tactics which are near impossible to contain by the larger, more powerful force. This nature of warfare is brushed aside and the blame for the failure is placed squarely on the shoulders of those people who correctly claimed from the start that such tactics of war would be inevitable.
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I guess you've never heard of a "self-fulfilling prophecy"?
Actually, a lot of it is caused by the way the MSM, still a bastion of anti-Americanism, is reporting on it. In over a full year of war, we've lost less people than we lost on the beaches during D-Day, when we were faced by old men and young boys as an adversary (read Keegan on the makeup of the beach defense units). The TOTAL number of civilian and military deaths is far less than a single night of carpetbombing with conventional munitions produced.
During the actual invasion, I recall seeing pictures of Iraqi military people who were using women and children as human shields because they thought that American soldiers would allow themselves to be killed rather than kill the human shields to get at the guy shooting at them. I wonder who gave them THAT idea?