[lbo-talk] is this your liberation?

[H. Curtiss Leung]

It's a mess, inn't it?  I remember some prowar bloggers--likely recycling
sub-Rumfeldian pap--saying that victory would be easy: just destory Iraq's 
command/control/communications (C^3) infrastructure and you'd be done.
I never understood this, and objected that you'd have to *take* the
C^3 facilities instead, because otherwise you couldn't secure a surrender, 
and you'd just have indefinite fighting on your hands.  Some units would
give up, of course--but others would fight, not necessarily out of loyality
to Saddam Hussein, but out of nationalist sentiment, lack of orders to the
contrary, dislike of Americans, etc...

I figured the "kill the C^3" strategy was just for propaganda purposes, to 
make people think this would be a short, easy war.  Guess I was wrong.  The
giant sucking sound is a power vacuum, killing Iraqis and Americans alike....

Curtiss