An Interesting perspective: FALLUJAH America's Waterloo

[anarchy1999]

Napoleon Bonaparte Emperor of the French Lived: 17691821

With each new shock and awe event during our first few years of the 21st Century, my thoughts always turn back to historical events. I think about the how and the why of the rise and fall of every Empire which were so similar in the reasons for both. Many writers have been using Vietnam as a comparison to our quagmire in Iraq. Others point out the differences between the two.

My memory went much farther back in time. I use Waterloo for the purpose of comparison not of events in Iraq but of choices that people made throughout history. And why those choices brought us to the dire straits, in which, we find ourselves today.

Recently, and continuing today, we are bombarded with news and opinions of the atrocity on-going in Fallujah. Many learned men and women have already written articles stating facts and opinions and possible future outcomes due to the slaughter of the innocents and the leveling of that city.

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And therein lies the problem.

Combining the young uninformed, the older uninformed, the closed minded, and easily manipulated, we have a very large portion of citizens who will never think breaking the cycle is even necessary. Certainly, they cannot comprehend that it can even be done.

There will always be a Waterloo until we choose to stop the cycle.

http://www.rense.com/general52/falluu.htm

[wtmusic]

1. interesting

of course the cycle will never stop. That would assume it is possible to learn from history! :crazy:

[caledesi]

2. At Waterloo, it was the mud.

In Falluja, it will be sand.

[0rganism]

3. Waterloo? Looks more like desert Stalingrad to me

Somewhere between Stalingrad and Beirut, a gigantic clusterfuck conceived by morons is taking place...

[radfringe]

4. it may be bush*'s waterloo

but for the Iraqi people -- FALLUJAH will be their "Remember the Alamo"

then again - bush* did want to be a uniter, and he's doing something that hasn't been done for centuries -- uniting the Iraqi people (against us)

[Sinistrous]

5. The Massacre at Fallujah was the act that hardened the hatred

of the US in the minds of a critical mass of Iraqis. With that butchery, *'s minions put any hope of acceptance by the Iraqis forever out of reach. Iraqis hold grudges for a long, long time.

[SpiralHawk]

6. America's Waterloo -- and Iraq's Alamo

Check your local movie listings. Chimpy "starring", so to speak, as Generalissamo Santa AWOL Ana