[lbo-talk] The end of warfare?

[Carl Remick]

>From: joanna bujes <jbujes at covad.net>
>
>"Against the most heavily armed opponent in the history of War, Fallujah 
>has still not let itself be "taken" to date. The mightiest military machine 
>in history has met its match. A turning point in military affairs? The end 
>of warfare, as practiced by the Americans - the application of overwhelming 
>force to obtain a victory?"

I've seen this movie before.  However clichéd it may be to compare Iraq to 
Vietnam, the fact is that the US *is* acting out its fantasies of power in 
Iraq in the same way it did in Vietnam, and once again it is getting its 
tuchus handed to it.  Unfortunately, the US didn't learn any lesson 30 years 
ago and doesn't seem likely to learn any this time either.  We'll just go 
back to the lab for a few years to figure out more ingenious, spectacular 
and "precise" ways to inflict pain and death, and presto, the US will be out 
democratizing the world again through main force better than ever.

Carl