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Anonymous
(from the same guy who did the rant above regarding armchair generals)
Insurgency and the Fench Resistance, etc.
Yes, the insurgency has a right to exist and fight the occupying forces. I even agreed with that while I was over there and got a lot of flak about it, but no one was really able to argue against the points I made for it.
Right and Wrong, Good and Evil, are all matters of where you stand on certain issues. I think most everyone can agree that "shock killings" that would be the beheadings and torture, etc, are wrong no matter what side does it, and both sides have done their share of nastiness.
Of course, there will always be exceptions, but even the civilian and certain sects of insurgents, except for the Mujahadin who were doing it, all agreed that the terrorizing of the Iraqi civilian populous and torture deaths were uncalled for.
However, IEDs, hit and run tactics, and mortaring US FOBs were, in some cases, terrorist tactics (IEDs), but they were not terrorist acts and were perfectly acceptable tactics. Now, don't get me wrong, as a US soldiers IEDs sucked, and I have been involved in them several times, have helped clean up the mess, and am lucky that I was never in the vehicle that got hit.
However, break down what an IED is, a mostly accurate (most are command detonated, not dumb fire weapons) explosive that allowed them to damage us while putting themselves at minimum visibility and at minimum risk, and occasionally there was civilian collateral damage.
Well, that is basically exactly what our high altitude and often times even CAS (Close Air Support, in this case operating with JDAMS, which may not be the appropriate acronym but is the appropriate phonetics) does. It allows us to deliver a mostly accurate high explosive device while putting ourselves at minimum visibility and risk. They just happen to have a certain lack of planes and air superiority to do this from the sky.
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