Reply #54: home-court advantage [View All]

"...and the parallels between Arab/Algerian resistance to French colonization and the the Arab/ Iraqi resistace to American neo-colonization are astounding..."
this is because history repeats itself, first as a tragedy, then as a farce...hell, we went into vietnam 10 years after the french got their asses kicked out there..(please don't hit me, i'm not a france-hater, their military forces had been waning for some time at the end of the colonialization period)...and then we go in, and get our asses kicked, and wonder what went wrong...

this is a grand strategic home-court advantage, that the vietnamese enjoyed...and the mid-easters enjoy the same advantage, for various reasons, most of them cultural and environmental...

i'm sure if a vastly superior iraqi army had invaded our country, and destroyed chicago, or philadelphia, or boston, that americans would have gone underground and formed rebel groups...so why are we so surprised that the iraqis have done the same?

welcome to the real world...people are different, and people WILL fight fiercely for their homes