Website review: Bringing Ireland to Baghdad: How th...
AngelaHayden discovered this in Politics
•9 reviews since Jul 2, 2008
politics, iraq
•alternet.org/waroniraq/90149/
People who like this website
- thinkingserious
Riverside
- officedoodler
California
- Reasonablib
Stockton
- mhenneberry
Chico
- Lisakruger
Seattle
- Krazy011
Arlington
- erlopez
Mount Pleasant
- realebrity
Lawrence
- als0677
Bartonville
- KristinJ117
Wisconsin
- grrizd67
Chicago
- LeatherWIngs
Indiana
- rssn
Columbus
- wkevinc
Ohio
- supernu
Toronto
StumbleUpon is the best way to discover great web sites, videos, photos, blogs and more - based on your interests.
Everything is submitted and rated by the community. Discover, share and review the best of the web!
Reviews of this website
AngelaHayden discovered 7 weeks ago- One thing the United States doesn't get about guerrilla warfare: It's not over until the guerrillas win.
- One thing the United States doesn't get about guerrilla warfare: It's not over until the guerrillas win.
- kaolelo rated 7 weeks ago
- From the page: "It's very easy to see what's up in Iraq right now -- if you're willing to face it. The trouble is, most "experts" aren't willing. That has been the pattern right from the beginning. We didn't want to admit there even was an insurgency, and even now, nobody misses a chance to declare that "the surge worked," as if that translates to "we win, it's over, let's go home." Fact number one about guerrilla wars: They're not over until the guerrillas win. Mao set out the guerrilla's viewpoint 80 years ago: "The enemy wants to fight a short war, but we simply will not let him." The longer the guerrillas stay in the game, the sicker the occupying army gets. Sooner or later, they'll go home -- because they can. It's that simple, and it works. So anyone who tells you it's over is just plain ignorant. That's one thing you can rule out instantly."
- penman2 rated 7 weeks ago
A reasonably good analysis of guerrilla tactics in Northern Ireland and how they may be being copied in Iraq. It's not that surprising: the author fails to point out that Middle-Eastern terrorists and the IRA trained together at the same paramilitary camps in Libya and elsewhere - plenty of opportunity to hone the tactics for the professional modern guerilla. However, the IRA were not as successful as the author claims. They failed to achieve their stated primary aim: to unite Ireland. The people they claimed to represent - the population of Eire - voted to remove that aim from the Irish Constitution in disgust at the IRA's tactics of bombing innocent civilians. All that was left was the negotiating table. What is depressing is that the UK Govt and military tried to warn the US about the problems the Allies would face after the invasion and - according to the UK Ambassador to the USA at the time - were "laughed out of the room". Anyone with half a brain (like me) could see that the Iraquis were not going to repeat the tactics of the First Gulf War and - having seen the impatience of the US public over Vietnam - would resort to a long-drawn out guerilla war.
- Sirtalksalot rated 7 weeks ago
- "They're not over until the guerrillas win" - Utter bullshit, this certainly isn't what happened in northern Ireland.
- Benjmn rated 7 weeks ago
- He makes some good points, but I doubt that the U.S. military really thinks he has renounced violence. Also, Northern Ireland is still part of the U.K. How exactly does the IRA's failure to achieve its goal prove that guerrilla wars don't end until the guerrillas want them to?
- Lisakruger rated 7 weeks ago
- i think this is true..
- rssn rated 7 weeks ago
- He says some interesting things, but I disagree with "It's not over until the guerrillas win". There's a way to fight everything, and with superior numbers, resources, and technology it can be done. Soldiers may need to be retrained, strategy may need to be re-thought, but anything can be fought.
Subscribe to updates