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Right wing thugs, bullies, and morons have used this argument a billion times. Some dumb-ass was screaming it at a local radio host this morning. They think everything in Iraq would change if the US army were allowed to "fight a real war" or "do whatever it takes to win". The ridiculous poltroon on the radio this morning actually mentioned the firebombing of Dresden as an example of how real wars need to be fought.
Sure, fine. That kind of approach works nicely when you're dealing with small stone age groups that can be shot, starved and infected out of existence; and it works okay when you're dealing with an authoritarian culture like Germany or Japan that has exhausted its ability to defend the current supremo and doesn't have a great deal of philosophical difficulty submitting to a new supremo. But it's not going to work in Iraq, you morons, because there are way too many people there, they don't like us, they don't accept us, and they won't have us there, and they actually have the means to fight back and are obviously willing to do so!
I'm sure you want the US to be more brutal than the Nazis, but do you really think we can be? Shall we drop all pretense and turn Iraq into the slaughterhouse of the East? How well did that technique work for the Nazis? They were swallowed up and destroyed by their own machine. Read a history book for heaven's sake; Iraq is a war of attrition and the US has the smaller purse.
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