From: Michael Wiik (mwiik@messagenet.com)
Date: Mon Mar 24 2003 - 13:53:45 MST
How much do precision munitions cost? Maybe the Arab world had best
recycle their tanks and buy a bunch of pickup trucks. I mean, taking out
a tank with a laser-guided bomb sounds plenty cost-effective, but how
'bout pickup trucks?
I doubt Iraqis have been subjected to decades of systematic
psychological castration such as the television sitcom 'Eight Rules for
Dating my Teen Daughter' and just about any nonpolitical talkshow.
Thomas Friedmen suggests not underestimating the power of humiliation.
He's talking about the rest of the world of course. These days the line
to humiliate yourself on U.S. nationwide TV goes all the way round the
block.
So what's an Iraqi to do? He doesn't like Saddam, but also doesn't wanna
return to his hood having surrendered w/o a fight. He knows in any
*real* fight, his goose will be flashfried in short order. So why not
take the family pickup, get a few friends and AK-47's and RPG's
together, and go take a shot at the Americans? Empty your magazines and
speed away. You don't even have to do it more than once. Stash the guns
and greet the Americans with open arms. You did your bit. You're a hero
to your homeboys. You might even get on CNN.
How do you fight that? Kill them all?
-Mike
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