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Originally posted by Silver Shadow
But Rome did not win.
Scorched earth policy (and retreat) only works against a rapidly invading army with a long supply route, and only as a very last resort.
The Russians did this during WW2, and lured the German army into a killer winter. The Chinese have been doing it for thousands of years against invaders.
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It is a worst possible strategy for civil war or revolution.
Once you have trashed your own nation, where are you going to go ?
Originally posted by Silver Shadow
America is already fighting two wars, and losing both ?
Originally posted by Silver Shadow
But not when Iraq has the full support of just about every other nation on the planet.
Originally posted by Silver Shadow
An even bigger problem for America these days is that America now has zero allies that are prepared to fight beside America. None, zero. America now has, only enemies and potential enemies worldwide.
Originally posted by nenothtu
Originally posted by Silver Shadow
Plan for Global leadership ?
There you go, not plan to get along with other nations peacefully, but LEADERSHIP, presumably by force.
I wish you luck in leading the world after you have had your revolution.
America will be lucky to survive at all as a nation once the shooting starts.
[edit on 1/11/2009 by Silver Shadow]
See above post, and I'd like to add why should we lead the rest of the world? Something wrong with your own leaders? Seems to me, and I'm not alone, that you folks ought to be able to lead yourselves.
Originally posted by Chevalerous
Yes! but here is the problem my friend!
We actually WANT America to lead the world, but in a very responsable way witout things like the PNAC agenda and insanity!
We have trusted you enough to let you administer our world reserve currency, (which by the way made it possible for you of propping up your way of living with the Petro-Dollar system and hegemony, and look what happened to that?
The world economy is screwed because of Wall Streets greed!
And now you guys have invented a new beautiful scheme of speculating in Life Insurances - when will the insanity end?
Well buddy!
You and people like Dooper nead to get into the politics, that's for sure!
We need a new start in some way!
Like I wrote in another thread! O'boy I miss the DD "IKE" Eisenhower days!