Re: [Marxism] Re: From Dieter Elkins on Fallujah....

[Intense Red <intnsred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

   The part that I caught was the line about "400 tanks".  An entire Army
division (16K or so troops with the division's inherent support elements) has
less than 400 tanks.

   It is a pity, because those errors in numbers may cause someone to stop
reading the article or to miss it's critically important point -- a reminder
about what a strategic disaster the attack on Fallujah has been (again!) for
the US.

 > Yes, there is definitely fairly typical Baathist/Islamic hype here.  I
 > am sure no MILITARY catastrophe on this scale has yet occurred in
 > Fallujah alone.
 > But there is a change in the direction of the hype, since the Resistance
 > always tends to hype its accomplishments.  (By the way, the Vietnamese
 > did this too. [...] This is simply truth-is-the-first-casualty war
 > reporting.)

   I think the key to remember here, besides the truism you mention above, is
that *all* sides do this in a war, including, as has been amply demonstrated,
the US.

 In solidarity.

--
"The important thing is not to stop questioning." -- Albert Einstein

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