Iraqi guerillas destroy myth of America's invincible military -- LiveWire Teen Forums

RANT TIME!

As pointed out before, the American 'war-machine' is more than capable of completely iradicating the threat, thus the strength of its own militant power is to be revered. However the myth itself of its indestructability has been tested in this feild and broken, because psychological warefare IS an important component in all warfare strategies, especially since this is concerning Guerilla warfare, a strategy not highly understood by the Super Power.

Face it ladies and gentlemen, Guerilla Warfare has been well deployed in the last half of the century and well off into the new, from the Apartheid Era to Veitnam itself. Its also been proven to be highly effective against armed forces, though is governing nature is far to ambiguous to stabilize itself as a form of government on most cases (Anarchsist handiwork). Even if one bombs a supposed headquarters of terrorists one still cant ever be sure they have beaten them.

And Guerilla warfare wins its battles not by the old "My horse is bigger than your horse" idea, rather by 'outsmarting its enemies and atacking it to its core of operations'. Compared to the past where millions of men where just simply sent to their deaths, paying the bill of war in how much blood was spilt.

If American hopes to win this war totally, it needs to root out the radical factions within it, and pacify any instability in its social relations with the people.

The American occupation does face a major threat from the infrastructure of the country itself, since it has been on some cases represented in a critical point of view by the media, and mainly it lacks the sufficient intelligence to understand the processes about the functions of their oponents, and their failure in dealing with Radical propaganda with effective political diplomacy.

Then again, was this war ever about Diplomacy? Is it simply, as others have said, a bid to gain wealth and valuable resources? Maybe so, politics does look for personal gain before entering a war, but the main ideology is that American is protecting her national security and her national pride, which is acceptable and understandable since terrorism does indeed exsist with malicious purposes against the western world.

Besides, one could say the occupying forces are trying to change some legal customs of their culture by force-an action which is garanteed to infuriate the communities and give social power to the radical factions. I agree that some of the practises in Iraq are questionable and bordering inhumane cruelty, but people dont simply CHANGE because you want them too. Diplomacy is more effective that nukes and gunfure. let the people decide they WANT the change; which in respect the american presence in its country is atempting to help it when there arent bombs and body bits flying everywhere.