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Thread #96454   Message #1891398
Posted By: Little Hawk
23-Nov-06 - 01:20 AM
Thread Name: BS: Immediate vs phased withdrawal from Iraq
Subject: RE: BS: Immediate vs phased withdrawal from Iraq
Aggressors who launch unjustified invasions very seldom have real success maintaining security (as they would call it) in the occupied country. Security remains impossible when most of the civil population hates you and would prefer that you leave. Consider that the Germans in WWII were quite unable to maintain security in a small country like Greece, for just one example. The Greeks fought them with ruthless guerilla warfare until the war ended. My father knew a German who had been stationed in Greece all through the war, and his memories that time were so unpleasant that he never visited the country again in the postwar era, although business took him all over Europe. It's no fun watching your back 24 hours a day in an occupied foreign country with a hostile population and expecting that you might die at any moment. It's even less fun when some of your good friends die.

Yeah, Cruiser, Bush and other people in the administration should face criminal charges, but I doubt that they will. That sort of thing usually only happens to people in countries that have not just lost a war, but have been totally defeated and made to surrender to an occupying power...as has happened to Saddam recently, and as happened to the Germans, Italians, and Japanese in WWII.