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Originally Posted by chicken  you do realize that te next president is going to be handed a foreign '' policy'',,,,that has fire near the fuse,,,,, the world hasnt exploded in 60 years {wwii] it's time once again for us to show how primitive we are,,,, and start wiping each other out,,,, people bitch about what the u.s. has done to the poor iraqi citizens,,,, we really have done nothing,, we have fought a '' humanitarian'' war trying to cause as little civilian death as possible,,,,,, but yet russia is carpetbombing civilian '' georgian'' towns and the left says nothing,,,,,, the '' its all americas fault'' mentallity is really weak,,,,,,, |
Uhhhmmmmm, chicken? Are you forgetting a little something? From our own recent past?
Shock and awe is a
military doctrine and a method of
unconventional warfare that attempts to destroy an adversary's will to fight through spectacular displays of power. Its authors label it a subset of rapid dominance, a doctrine that advocates defeating an adversary by swift action against all aspects of their ability to resist, rather than by strictly
military forces. It is a product of the
National Defense University of the
United States, and has been notably
applied in the
2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.
However, "shock" and "awe" are both
synonyms of
terror. To that extent, or from the perspective of the insurgent forces fighting conventional forces in military theatres such as the Middle East who frequently use
terrorist doctrines or methods, or both, shock and awe is difficult to distinguish from
terrorism because of the large number of
indiscriminate civilian deaths. Mortality due to violence in Iraq since 2003, for example, has been due to coalition forces far more than insurgents.
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Now admittedly that's from Wikipedia, but come on. are you contending that the USA is a blameless invader?