[lbo-talk] The Return of the Draft

[C. G. Estabrook]

Mutual aggression?  In fact, the US-controlled sanctions regime killed far
more people than either GW1 or GW2.  Clinton is responsible for more dead
Iraqis than both Bushes combined.

I think future historians (if there are any) will see the Gulf Wars as
part of the long history of colonialism, which underwent a major
consolidation after 1945.  Your pre-modern examples are more like the
Thirty Years' War of the Twentieth Century, 1914-45. --CGE

On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, dano wrote:


> 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