So much for bloodless war

SergioL652 at aol.com SergioL652 at aol.com
Mon Mar 24 17:21:12 PST 2003


In a message dated 3/24/2003 6:58:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, mpollak at panix.com writes:


> Interestingly, the reason the US is fighting this way is because of
> international opposition to the war, which prevented half the men and
> materiel from getting to the battlefield in time. If the men in charge
> were rational, they would have called it off. But because they're mad,
> they didn't. Their greatest and only fear was that if they didn't do it
> now, they might never get to do it.
>
> Michael
>

How long before the media start blaming the peace movement for the "restrained" approach the US is taking? I bet they will soon say that the reason for the resistance is that the Armed Forces are fighting with their hands tied. Isn't that what they said after Vietnam?

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