From: matus (matus@snet.net)
Date: Mon Mar 24 2003 - 10:42:26 MST
Mike Lorrey said:
>The Soviet experience in Afghanistan is a good example of such a
>conflict, yet it can be seen from the US experience there a decade
>later that a certain degree of technical superiority, in both equipment
>and training, can largely eliminate any advantage the local anarchists
>may have once had, even when the conqueror is under both media scrutiny
>and feels bound by international standards of behavior.
Amara said:
"There was almost no "media scrutiny", and the Afghans defeated the Soviets
with guerilla tactics, intelligence, and after the moderates died or
escaped, a brutal extremism that was the end result of a decade of
fighting."
The Afghans won against the soviets from the tremendous amount of guns,
missiles, and supplies sent by the United States to supply the Afghan
resistant against the tyrannicall murderous expansionist soviets. Leftists
no longer felt it necessary to even attempt to defend people from murderous
tyrannical regimes post vietnam. Your statements parrallel the same
arguments made just before the US's ousting of the Taliban, that 'the
Soviets fought them for years and these hardened warriors who knew the
terrain fought them off!' Never mind the help they received from the other
world superpower. Note that skeptics predicted similiar difficulty with the
US defeating the Taliban, but with no military backing from a superpower,
all the 'intelligence and guerilla tactics' of the hardened war machine of
the Taliban fought off the fall of Kabul for, what, a month?
Just as the victory in Vietnam belongs to the Soviets, and not the North
Vietnamese civilians fighting for a 'revolution' (using soviet tanks, guns,
mines, and artillery) the victory in Afghanastan against the soviet invasion
belongs to the US.
This further supports Mike's statements, no amount of intelligence and
perserverence from guerilla tactic anarchists can defeat a massive statist
invasion with advanced weaponry and overwhelming firepower.
Michael Dickey
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