[lbo-talk] The Return of the Draft

[dano]

At 9:19 AM -0400 6/3/04, Dennis Perrin wrote:
>  > But GW I wasn't intended to be "endless," unlike this one - it had
>  > limited goals, and when they were accomplished, the war ended, for
>  > all the reasons that Bush 41 and Scowcroft (and even an earlier
>  > edition of Cheney) explained.
>
>>  Doug
>
>The immediate goals of GW Part 1 may have been limited, but the state of war
>remained (sanctions, bombing), and it was inevitable that the US would
>follow-up with an invasion and occupation. Once Saddam showed that he would

IMHO the long view of history will see these not as GW 1 and 2, but 
as a single war with two major battles separated by a moderate period 
of mutual aggression (military and economic).

Examples might be Thirty Years War, War of the Roses, Napoleonic Wars 
(less similar).

The current might be more like:
GW1 (Bush1's war) = Battle of Kuwait
GW2 (Bush2's Iraq War) = Battle of Baghdad

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