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Old 04-03-2009, 04:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Botnst View Post
is exactly how we lost Vietnam. They had small arms and were mostly afoot, we had mechanized war. They were willing to absorb huge casualty rates. We were intolerant of relatively low casualty rates. Our politicians surrendered. We lost. The Vietnamese commies won. Same with Somalia.
What makes you think any US civilian insurrection will have the training, cohesion, leadership, and the numbers that the Vietcong had? I think it will be more like the wackos in Waco, maybe just larger in number, but easily put down.
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