Iraq is America's...

[dpbrown]

Quagmire, colony, conquest? Through what bit of world history can we best understand what awaits us in Iraq?

[lanlady]

1. another (Soviet) Afghanistan

n/t

[NNN0LHI]

5. With the bankruptcy of a super power in the process too maybe? n/t

[maggrwaggr]

14. agree 100% which is why

I had this bad feeling in the pit of my stomach regarding the invasion.

I felt it was the beginning of the end for our country. It will bankrupt us both morally and economicallly

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. Unwinnable and inescapable.

The guerilla war will go on and on. Sometimes a lot, sometimes a little, but unceasing. BushWarInc can't walk away from it and they can't win it. They can bluster and threaten but they can't expand it to other nations simply because there aren't the troops or the money to do so. If the fraboy warrior manages to win in '04, it will become even more bloody as desperation sets in.

At some point, some politician will offer "Peace with honor" to the American public, and find some way out.

It won't happen soon. This tarbaby is very sticky.

[NNN0LHI]

8. You are right

It will be kill a few soldiers. Then our soldiers go out and kick some ass creating new fighters. Then they will kill a couple more soldiers. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Don

[Capt_Nemo]

3. Afghanistan and Lebannon, in the 80s, are much more apt analogies

[SpiralHawk]

4. Staging Ground for Armageddon

Gack ! Bush* seems determined to "Bring it on."



* Clearly rejected by a majority of patriotic and discerning American voters in the 2000 election; appointed to office by the so-called supreme court.

[maxsolomon]

6. chechnya

because much more of the sabotage, and the military will start indiscriminately destroying, leading to more resistance.

its a feedback loop.

kill saddam, declare victory, get out.

but get saddam or he's back in power in a week, hailed as a hero.

[Robin Hood]

7. Where's the all of the above question?

Because that's what I would chose. We will be there for years to come.

[dpbrown]

9. Must remember "all of the above" next time

An interesting spread, so far.

[Minstrel Boy]

10. Waterloo, just as

Afghanistan was for the Soviet Union.

Terminal, imperial exhaustion.

[dpbrown]

11. There's no doubt this invasion was not well thought out

And now we're deeeeeeeep in a quagmire.

[dpbrown]

12. Waterloo

Well, I hope it's Bush's Waterloo, anyhoo.

[dpbrown]

13. Looks like West Bank's in the lead

Will there be a late upset?

[MiltonLeBerle]

15. America's sandbox.

[sujan]

16. vietnam

Equally brutal, more devastating.

[kutastha]

17. Ditto

Just when does Joe Sixpack start asking, "What are we fighting for?"?

[ProudGerman]

18. Go ask Joe Sixpack

The fightings over, remember what the man on the talking box said? Mission Accomplished!

Of course, Joe Sixpack is either too stupid, or drunk to ask "what mission?"

[Emboldened Chimp]

19. Afghanistan