<HTML>In a message dated 3/24/2003 6:58:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, mpollak@panix.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">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 </BLOCKQUOTE> 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? Sergio</HTML>