[lbo-talk] Reyes: send more troops

B.K. DeLong bkdelong at pobox.com
Wed Dec 6 13:23:18 PST 2006


I'm not the political analyst Brad DeLong. ;) Otherwise my email would have been much more intelligent and less emotional.

On 12/6/06, Dennis Redmond <dredmond at efn.org> wrote:
> Brad Delong wrote:
>
> > It seems to me that the more troops we have, the less of our troops
> > will die because there will be more people to catch IEDs, find
> > insurgents, save injured troops etc.
>
> Two points. (1) The insurgents are 70% of the Iraqi population. Unless the
> US is willing to murder 19 million human beings, the occupation is doomed.
>
> (2) The insurgents are just beginning to figure out urban warfare. Once
> they get hold of large numbers of anti-tank weapons, they'll do to the US
> exactly what Hezbollah did to the Israeli invaders.
>
> Out, out, out. Get out NOW.
>
> -- DRR
>
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